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March 3, 2006

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Esperanto on OS X but not XP

Posted Mar. 3, ’06, 4:59 AM PT by Aaron Freedman
Category | Apple » Huh?

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For those of you that don’t know, Esperanto was a language created in the late 19th Century to be an international language that everyone spoke. Obviously, that didn’t exactly happen, but there are at least 100,000 fluent speakers of Esperanto according to Wikipedia. Because of this OS X has the Esperanto language and keyboard layout built-in, yet for some reason Windows XP does not (according to my research). This isn’t exactly a statement that’ll shake the world, but it is something to think about. Does Microsoft not include the language because it simply does not care, or maybe because they think that people who speak Esperanto are most likely not using their products? But all in all, this just shows that Apple really does “Think Different.”


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