OSX, powerbook migration, and Tiger

Posted at November 28, 2005

While upgrading to Tiger, I noticed that the international menu item had lost Catalan as an input menu option, and had added US instead.

While browsing the System Preferences ‘International’ menu, I realised that Catalan is simply not there, as a language, anymore. Then Google told me that Apple has apparently decided to drop Catalan altogether as a language in Tiger.

Catalan is a language, mind, that is currently and officially spoken by more people than Finish, Norwegian and Swedish each. More books are published within Catalonia in Catalan than are published in all of the rest of Spain in any given year.

I read such illuminating articles (from as far back as May 2005) such as this one, which says:

The move means Apple has ignored a local campaign in the 68,730 square kilometre Catalan region, which extends across parts of Spain, France, Andorra and Italy. The language is spoken by over seven million and understood by ten million people.

I only ever used the Catalan keyboard input to write to my parents, but still, what on earth are Apple thinking?

Or put more succinctly, Apple people, who the fuck do you think you are, to cheerfully erase entire cultures out of the blue?

Thank you, normal broadcasting will resume shortly (after I plot a little ‘visit’ to San Cupertino).

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