François Revol wrote: > I've been forced to use OSX for some months now, and I'm getting really > pissed off by all those translated names. It just doesn't sound right. > > You drag-n-drop a file from ~/Vidéos/ to Terminal and it becomes ~/ > Movies/... > > Even in some GUI apps the right path is displayed, so the confusion is > not only for Terminal users. Stefano Ceccherini wrote: > Indeed. Since Vista / Server 2003, Microsoft does the same, and it's > simply insane. > Windows explorer shows the translated name, but trying to save a file > (i.e. from notepad) directly writing the full path (i.e.: > c:\programmi\blah) results in: "path not found", since the real path > is the untranslated name. > And worse, having an english windows 2003 server access remotely an > Italian windows xp shows the folder translated in english, even if on > disk they are stored in italian. Baaah! Does this mean you guys do not want translated file names at all, or that it should somehow be done better? I guess it should be possible to turn it off, but should application names then still be translated or be treated like any other file name? Discuss. :-) -Truls