RE: does cisco IOS only in English or ????

Do a Linux "strings" command on a ios.bin file, you'd be surprised.

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From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Carlos G Mendioroz
Sent: 23 November 2010 01:05 AM
To: Keegan Holley
Cc: Narbik Kocharians; Dale Shaw; Zack (Doc); Group Study CCIE Study Group
Subject: Re: does cisco IOS only in English or ????

And then many of us would probably decide to go and use it in english no matter what. Example configs are in english, we end up being used to shortcuts in english (wr, un all) and so on.

Also, localizations usually put a tax on delivery time.
I guess it makes no sense to support localizations as long as users do not have to deal with IOS.

-Carlos

Keegan Holley @ 22/11/2010 19:18 -0300 dixit:
> This is actually interesting if you compare it to normal OS's. There
> are probably miles and miles of prompts, error messages, verification
> messages, commands and the like and the average user OS. In
> comparison, I'd be extremely surprised if everything concerning user
> input amounted to more than 5MB of data. This is probably the one
> time where IOS being text based actually comes in handy. In short it
> would probably pretty easy to translate IOS to the popular languages if the all mighty cisco decided to.
>
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Narbik Kocharians <narbikk_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I agree, but Mac, Windows or even Linux is different to IOS. But hey
>> no arguments.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Dale Shaw <dale.shaw_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Zack,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Zack (Doc) <zack_at_tnan.net> wrote:
>>>> Then perhaps a better analogy is a programming language, since we
>>>> are
>> in
>>>> fact programming the router to operate a certain way.
>>>>
>>>> There is no "German" C++, or "Japanese" Fortran. These are
>>>> languages themselves, which borrow words chiefly from English. IOS
>>>> is the same
>> in
>>>> that respect. It is a language all of it's own, with it's own
>>>> syntax
>> and
>>>> occasionally spelling, who borrow's heavily from the English language.
>>> Yeah, sure, so it probably doesn't make much sense to change the
>>> language used for command input but there is a lot of output in
>>> English that would be relatively easy to translate to other languages.
>>>
>>> Just trying to illustrate that what happens under the hood and what
>>> happens in the UI are two different things, just like in Windows,
>>> Linux, Mac OS and so on.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Dale
>>>
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