Yoz Grahame's Unresolvable Discrepancy

I came here to apologise and eat biscuits, and I'm all out of biscuits

Three L10Ns on the shirt

Posted: December 5th, 2002 Comments Off

I knew all that localisation bollocks had to be good for something.

(“Dialogue”? As a UI term? But… “program”… Ah, hell. They own the techie bits of the language, let’s face it. [Vague rant about the decline of British English in the face of US cultural imperialism and the Internet hand-waved about but avoided, and given the way I abuse my mother tongue it's just as well])

Thanks to Alistair McLaurin for the pointer, encountered during my recent troubles with 1.2.1 which were sorted after some detective work. (Lesson learnt: be careful with your profile dir.)


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