Polyglot Frontier: Benefits of Making Frontier Multi-lingual

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Polyglot Frontier: promoting multi-lingual support for Frontier

Originally published on 9/25/97; 0:42:26 PM

Benefits of Making Frontier Multi-lingual

You can look at it this two ways. One, it's a thinly veiled ploy to appeal to greed and economics. On the other hand, it's a plea for the very small but loyal--and growing-- group of Frontier users here in Japan and across Asia.
The Economics
Asia is a burgeoning growth area for electronics, computers, and the Internet. The governments here are well aware that an investment needs to be made in technology in order to make a place for their country and people in the world.
Oh yeah, the people.. there are just a *lot* of them!
Japan
In particular, Japan has the world's second largest market for PC's. Economy not withstanding, the internet is here in Japan to stay. According to a leading ISP's survey, 25% of web surfers in Japan have ISDN or better, while nearly 68% are connecting via 28.8. Internet use has skyrocketed--and now Internet magazines outnumber general computing magazines.
Anyway, the point is, there's a market here as well.
By the way, NikkeiMac, one of the most prestigious Japanese Macintosh magazines, has their online version done entirely in Frontier. Nikkei Mac is operated by the publishing company that publishes the Nikkei newspaper, which is the equivalent of the Wall Street Journal here.
http://www.nikkeimac.com

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Originally published on 9/25/97; 0:42:26 PM Benefits of Making Frontier Multi-lingual
	You can look at it this two ways. One, it's a thinly veiled ploy to appeal to greed and economics. On the other hand, it's a plea for the very small but loyal--and growing-- group of Frontier users here in Japan and across Asia. The Economics Asia is a burgeoning growth area for electronics, computers, and the Internet. The governments here are well aware that an investment needs to be made in technology in order to make a place for their country and people in the world. Oh yeah, the people.. there are just a lot of them! Japan In particular, Japan has the world's second largest market for PC's. Economy not withstanding, the internet is here in Japan to stay. According to a leading ISP's survey, 25% of web surfers in Japan have ISDN or better, while nearly 68% are connecting via 28.8. Internet use has skyrocketed--and now Internet magazines outnumber general computing magazines. Anyway, the point is, there's a market here as well. By the way, NikkeiMac, one of the most prestigious Japanese Macintosh magazines, has their online version done entirely in Frontier. Nikkei Mac is operated by the publishing company that publishes the Nikkei newspaper, which is the equivalent of the Wall Street Journal here. http://www.nikkeimac.com
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