Re: Why emacs have not native language menu

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

On 25 juil. 07, at 00:24, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Am 24.07.2007 um 14:18 schrieb Jean-Christophe Helary:
>
> > > Of course, we all know that for a corporation market division is  
> > > very
> > > good (it allows them to put higher prices in the submarkets).   
> > > But for
> > > users these translations  is costly in more than one way.
> >
> > I fail to see the rationale behind this opinion.
>
> Compare the price of a Mac bought in the U.S.A. and one bought in  
> Japan or France!

I just did, with the exchange rates found on http://www.xe.com/

Model/USD/EU/YEN as per the different Apple sites
conversion from USD to EU
conversion from USD to YEN

> MB $1099 €1049 ¥139.800
> €795
> ¥132.578
>
> MBP $1999 €1899 ¥259.800
> €1446
> ¥241.150
>
> MM $599 €619 ¥74.800
> €433
> ¥72.243
>
> iM $999 €999 ¥124.800
> €722
> ¥120.486
>
> MP $2499 €2499 ¥319.800
> €1808
> ¥301.352

Interestingly, it seems it is the French buyers who pay for the  
Japanese localization...

Jean-Christophe Helary