Non American

Why don't iPhones work overseas? It's not fair that we know all about it and see all the previews and not be able to get the phone.
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Randy, you're right... the U.S. is always last to get the "cool" phones.
I had a friend in medical school in India. Everytime he'd come home to Los Angeles, he'd ask me if i wanted an unlocked new cell phone (GSM). Apparently they are dirt cheap in India (they get them from Asia or Japan, i think).
But they were COOL phones indeed.... he's currently using one that may not be released here in the U.S. for another year or so he was telling me.
So yeah, for once we got the cool phone that the rest of the world wants

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G.

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See this manual about using the Apple Wireless Keyboard with your iPad -
iPad User Guide
http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1595/en_US/ipad_user_guide.pdf
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A similar guide for the iPhone -
iPhone User Guide
manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1565/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf
See page 28.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
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my name

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Foreign Languages in Labview

Hi,
Looking at producing a localizable (to three or four different languages) user interface in Labview. Has anyone tried any of the following, or know whether they are possible?
a) Having a resource file with user interface labels, etc. in non-English extended ascii displayable languages.
b) Any method of doing the same thing with Asian languages?
c) Displaying Unicode with labview?
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Thanks
Alf Katz
[email protected]

Hi Craig,
Platform independence is *not* an issue for us. Your suggestion of using
ActiveX is an excellent one, and I'll follow it up. I'm sure a few locality
files won't prove too difficult using this technique. Thanks heaps for the
idea. Guess we'll need to get to know ActiveX a bit better.
The Unicode Worldwide Character Standard is a character coding system
designed to support the interchange, processing, and display of the written
texts of the diverse languages of the modern world (kind of like ASCII for
non-Americans). In addition, it supports classical and historical texts of
many written languages. While Micro$oft is on the Unicode consortium, so
are Sun, Apple IBM, Oracle and many more. It is an international standard
supported by most operating systems (including Linux and Solaris) and all
Browsers that I can think of (possible exception of Lynx).
Regards,
Alf Katz,
[email protected]
"Craig Graham" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Unicode is an M$ thing I think, so if you're willing to use Unicode then
> platform independence probably isn't an issue.
>
> Try using some of the MS ActiveX controls; I've just created an ActiveX
> control of type "MSForms.IMdcText" on a Labview front panel, chnaged its
> effect to "flat", set the background "transparent", changed the sizing
> property "IntegralHeight" to false and written some Hebrew text in Word to
> paste into it, giving me to all intents and purposes a Hebrew control
label
> that can be positioned over an existing control whose label has been
hidden.
> If you group them together then you won't even have problems rearranging
> your panel to make it look nicer. To verify it IS the ActiveX control
doing
> this, I tried pasting the same thing into a standard string control and
got
> simply a series of question marks.
>
> The activeX object shows up as a "Microsoft Forms 2.0 TextBox" in the
> "Select ActiveX Object" dialog.
>
> I've not tried using this any further though so I don't know what
> "challenges" you'll face making localisation files that can be loaded on
> startup to set all the texts.
>
> Alf Katz wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Hi,
> > Looking at producing a localizable (to three or four different
> > languages) user interface in Labview. Has anyone tried any of the
> > following, or know whether they are possible?
> > a) Having a resource file with user interface labels, etc. in
> > non-English extended ascii displayable languages.
> > b) Any method of doing the same thing with Asian languages?
> > c) Displaying Unicode with labview?
> >
> > A brief glance shows little thought has been given to localization
> > for the world not represented in the world series, but maybe
somebody
> > out there has some workarounds.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Alf Katz
> > [email protected]
>
>

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Hi,
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