RE: outsourcing technical communication

[Chris <cud -at- telecable -dot- es>]

I thought I would add this...  Looking at the Pivotal web page I notice 
it presents the following languages:

French
Deutch
Japanese
Espagnol
Hebrew

Judging by the consistency of this list, I would ask whether it was 
compiled by an outsource source.  Or maybe an outsource source would 
have done better, having greater sensitivity to international issues.   
Either use all lower ASCII and stick to the English spellings of the 
languages, or use the proper spellings for all.  (I believe Nihongo 
works because it qualifies as a Romaji form of the word.  And I have no 
idea how to treat Hebrew in this context.)  But I really like their 
Italian way to spell the Spanish "enye" (n-with-tilde) - creative, even 
if it's politically incorrect.  Here are the two alternatives I would 
suggest (assuming the higher characters come across):

Français              French
Deutch                 German
Nihongo              Japanese
Español              Spanish
Hebrew (??)       Hebrew

--
Chris Despopoulos, maker of CudSpan Freeware...
Plugins to Enhance FrameMaker & FrameMaker+SGML
http://www.telecable.es/personales/cud/
cud -at- telecable -dot- es



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