Is upgrade from French Panther to English Tiger recommended?

Hi all
I guess the title says it all...
I'm currently running the French version of OS 10.3.9 (even though I always use it in English) on an iBook G4 purchased in France, with a French keyboard.
I'm pretty sure I need to upgrade to 10.4 but I have a couple of questions:
1) Am I more likely to run into problems if I try to upgrade to the English version of Tiger?
2) I have Macromedia Studio MX 2004 and Adobe Creative Suite v1 installed and rely on them for my living. I've checked the Adobe Tech Notes and it appears that all the initial problems encountered when running these packages on Tiger have now been ironed out. Does anyone know if there are still any outstanding issues/problems that I should be aware of?
Thanks in advance for the help!
Martin

Hi Martin,
MAC OSX is multilingual. You don't have to be worried in between french and english.
I personally used os 10.4.8 and MacroMedia Studio MX 2004 and I have no problem with it (I had performed all MacroMedia updates). However, I have CS2; so I could not talk about CS1.

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