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Hello everyone

I live in the UK, but will be visiting the US at Christmas time... I'm considering becoming a 'switcher'!

- if I pick up an American Powerbook G4 12" in the States, will the
operating system allow me to select British English as the system
language? Can I look forward to adjusting the "colours", not "colors"?

- Will I have to reinstall Jaguar and select British English, or can
you change a setting on some control panel?

- Or will I have to buy a UK version of Jaguar/wait for Panther?

I'll be buying a UK version of Office vX so I'm guessing that should
come with British English spelling/grammar, etc?

Thank you for you time! Best wishes, Roy
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In article <985638c8.0307250658.5d0891c7@posting.google.com>,
roystonvasey100@hotmail.com (Roy V) wrote:

Hello everyone

I live in the UK, but will be visiting the US at Christmas time... I'm considering becoming a 'switcher'!

- if I pick up an American Powerbook G4 12" in the States, will the
operating system allow me to select British English as the system
language? Can I look forward to adjusting the "colours", not "colors"?

- Will I have to reinstall Jaguar and select British English, or can
you change a setting on some control panel?

You should be able to make the change using System Preferences. But it
might be simpler to reinstall, since the installer walks you through all
the necessary steps rather than expecting you to figure them out for
yourself.

- Or will I have to buy a UK version of Jaguar/wait for Panther?

No such thing; there's one Jaguar, and will presumably be one Panther,
which include localization information for every region supported.

I'll be buying a UK version of Office vX so I'm guessing that should
come with British English spelling/grammar, etc?

I'd expect so, since the copy I got in the USA includes a British
spelling option. :-)

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Macaroni, Automated System Maintenance for Mac OS X.
Version 1.4: Best cleanup yet, gets files other tools miss.
See http://www.atomicbird.com/
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In article <985638c8.0307250658.5d0891c7@posting.google.com>,
Roy V <roystonvasey100@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hello everyone

I live in the UK, but will be visiting the US at Christmas time... I'm considering becoming a 'switcher'!

- if I pick up an American Powerbook G4 12" in the States, will the
operating system allow me to select British English as the system
language? Can I look forward to adjusting the "colours", not "colors"?

Well, now, you could adopt a technically simpler but socially more
radical solution and just become an American!

Imagine a whole new set of "switcher" commercials:

I'm Tony Blair. I used to run a small country off the coast of France.
When I was British I imagine I crashed on a weekly basis, sometimes
even every day. I'd go off for a foreign-policy victory tour, and a
prominent employee of my defence ministry would die. Or I'd be giving
a speech in Parliament and a backbencher from my own party would stand
up and say "Are you trying to tell us that your weapons of mass
destruction stories had any more factual basis than the tales of the
Brothers Grimm?" So I tried out being an American, and it was
astonishing! I'd be giving a speech to their toughest politicians, and
they'd interrupt me 17 times with standing ovations! I didn't have to
read users manuals to figure out how to address the second son of a
non-hereditary viscount; when I met an American I could just point and
say, "Hey, bud, how's it going?" and get a polite response on the
first try! And there are no difficult foreign languages to learn, or
much of *anything* to learn, for that matter... and you don't have to
install all sorts of complicated international agreements to invade other
countries! Catch me waving the Union Jack again? I don't think so!

--
David Sewell, University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA USA
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roystonvasey100@hotmail.com (Roy V) wrote in message news:<985638c8.0307250658.5d0891c7@posting.google.com>...

Hello everyone

I live in the UK, but will be visiting the US at Christmas time... I'm considering becoming a 'switcher'!

- if I pick up an American Powerbook G4 12" in the States, will the operating system allow me to select British English as the system
language? Can I look forward to adjusting the "colours", not "colors"?

I am a novice at this, but I did this.

system preferences > International

click on the language tab.

Click on edit.

check off British English and Austrialian English.

Dragged British English to the top of the list of languages.

Got message:
Changes take effect in the Finder the next time you log in. Changes
take effect in the applications the next time you open them.

( The finder is the program which runs the desktop. )

Restarted mail. Typed in:

How do you spell color and colour.

Ran system spell checker.
Spell checker objected to color and gave me a list of words to pick
from Colour was the first word in list. Word colour was fine.

Mail is a built in application and MacOS X has a built in spell
checker. Mail uses this built in spell checker.

My system came with 1.1.x and a 10.2 cd-rom. I installed 10.2 and did
the easy install. Have not tested the system help for how color and
colour is spelled. I think all the help files and system messages are
installed for most/all languages by default.

Robert
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So how to get rid of the British flag in the 10.2.6 menubar even though
I have only one keyboard language selected (UK English)?

Stan
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In article <250720032357267712%macho@mac.com>, Stan The Man
<macho@mac.com> wrote:

So how to get rid of the British flag in the 10.2.6 menubar even though
I have only one keyboard language selected (UK English)?

You definitely have more than one keyboard layout selected.

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Stan The Man <macho@mac.com> wrote:

So how to get rid of the British flag in the 10.2.6 menubar even though
I have only one keyboard language selected (UK English)?

In the Language tab of the International preference pane, click
"Edit..." and uncheck everything except British English. Then go to the
Input Menu tab and uncheck everything except British.
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In article <250720031722386931%jerrykindall@nospam.invalid>,
Jerry Kindall <jerrykindall@nospam.invalid> wrote:

In article <250720032357267712%macho@mac.com>, Stan The Man
<macho@mac.com> wrote:

So how to get rid of the British flag in the 10.2.6 menubar even though
I have only one keyboard language selected (UK English)?

You definitely have more than one keyboard layout selected.

Quite possible but definitely not "definitely". I have several users on
my Mac, most using only US-english, 2 using only dutch. The US-english
ones show no flag. One of the dutch ones doesn't show a flag, the other
dutch one *does*. I've found no way to fix this. When I have time I'll probably delete that user and create it again. See what that brings.
(The worst of it is that the one misbehaving account allows that user to
Open System Preferences, even though System Preferences is not lised in
the apps that user is allowed to open.)

Rumour has it that this is a 'known' bug in Jaguar and can be 'fixed' by making sure all users are set to use the one same language. Not a real
world option.

--
Free and shareware at <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/software/>
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In article <user-595E2B.06374226072003@news.euro.net>, Sander
Tekelenburg <user@domain.invalid> wrote:

In article <250720031722386931%jerrykindall@nospam.invalid>,
Jerry Kindall <jerrykindall@nospam.invalid> wrote:

In article <250720032357267712%macho@mac.com>, Stan The Man
<macho@mac.com> wrote:

So how to get rid of the British flag in the 10.2.6 menubar even though
I have only one keyboard language selected (UK English)?

You definitely have more than one keyboard layout selected.

Quite possible but definitely not "definitely". I have several users on
my Mac, most using only US-english, 2 using only dutch. The US-english
ones show no flag. One of the dutch ones doesn't show a flag, the other >dutch one *does*. I've found no way to fix this. When I have time I'll >probably delete that user and create it again. See what that brings.
(The worst of it is that the one misbehaving account allows that user to >Open System Preferences, even though System Preferences is not lised in
the apps that user is allowed to open.)

Rumour has it that this is a 'known' bug in Jaguar and can be 'fixed' by >making sure all users are set to use the one same language. Not a real
world option.

My G4 PB has only one user and I have unchecked all languages except UK
English in both the International pane and the Input Menu tab. The only
way I can - temporarily - get rid of the flag is to check a second
input language, eg US, and then uncheck it again. The flag will then
disappear for a few minutes but it always comes back without any
further changes to settings.

Stan
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