Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 22, 2005 12:16 PM
"as long as you don't need to enter too many of these special characters."
You're kidding, right? I just spent three hours trying to make OOo work for a Latino family. You can not even type the spanish language characters with a keyboard + the Spain spellcheck does NOTHING. It does not activate. ZERO.
Talk about a zero? This is like the straw that broke the Camel's back. This is so LAME it really HURTS.
That is the HUGE problem with GPL software - there's nobody home. But Sun Microsystems is going to get a telephone call from me on this one. And I am going to make it HURT in return.
This really really SUX, Mr. Macro. People have been typing in Spanish (and German and Italian and French?) for twenty years? on MS Word and Wordperfect? and in DOS too?
I wish I knew where to go. I do not believe in the Apple hardware model. Microsoft are a bunch of thieves. And today, Linux Desktop is a halfwit's bad joke.
And your article SUCKS because you gloss over the basics. You should not have to go into the depths of the program to sit down at a keyboard and use accents marks and punctuation.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 22, 2005 12:16 PMYou're kidding, right? I just spent three hours trying to make OOo work for a Latino family. You can not even type the spanish language characters with a keyboard + the Spain spellcheck does NOTHING. It does not activate. ZERO.
Talk about a zero? This is like the straw that broke the Camel's back. This is so LAME it really HURTS.
That is the HUGE problem with GPL software - there's nobody home. But Sun Microsystems is going to get a telephone call from me on this one. And I am going to make it HURT in return.
This really really SUX, Mr. Macro. People have been typing in Spanish
(and German and Italian and French?) for twenty years? on MS Word and Wordperfect? and in DOS too?
I wish I knew where to go. I do not believe in the Apple hardware model. Microsoft are a bunch of thieves. And today, Linux Desktop is a halfwit's bad joke.
And your article SUCKS because you gloss over the basics. You should not have to go into the depths of the program to sit down at a keyboard and use accents marks and punctuation.
JERK. You LINUX JERK.
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