Windows XP as Gaeilge

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Irish speakers will now be able to work more easily in their chosen language following the launch today of an Irish edition of the Microsoft Windows XP operating system.

The US software giant Microsoft developed the Language Interface Packs (LIPs) in conjunction with Foras na Gaeilge, the body responsible for the promotion of the Irish language throughout Ireland and the universities of Ulster, Limerick and Maynooth.

The LIP software allows the user to install an Irish language ‘skin’ on top of an existing installation of Windows XP and Microsoft Office, converting the older version to Irish.

This means that programs such as including Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint will now be available with Irish language commands.

The Minister for the Gaeltacht, Rural and Community Affairs, Mr Éamon Ó Cuív, launched the Irish language versions of Microsoft Windows and Office in Dublin today. Both packs are free to download.

Minister Ó Cuív was joined at the launch by Mr. Joe Macri, Managing Director, Microsoft Ireland and Mr. Seosamh MacDonncha, Chief Executive, Foras na Gaeilge.

Microsoft said the project was in response to huge interest in the idea of providing Windows XP in Irish and also marked the software company’s 20 years of investment in Ireland.

Chalk

assuming this isnt a joke,
why isnt it in the computers, windows or gaeilge forum?

Naos

Because It will get a lot more attention here.
Thats very cool. I´d use that simply so I could learn more Irish.

Hopefully it will also help with the revival of Irish, and get us onto that EU list of official languages, if we are still being considered.

StupidLikeAFox

Mear wrote:

Hopefully it will also help with the revival of Irish, and get us onto that EU list of official languages, if we are still being considered.

It was passed a couple of weeks ago afaik....

Jimi-Spandex

Wow, that's nice and pointless.

You won't learn Irish from knowing what Irish for File and Help and Settings are, will you?

Töpher

How about "Warning: not enough virtual memory!" ?

Irishstabber

Mear wrote:

Because It will get a lot more attention here.
Thats very cool. I´d use that simply so I could learn more Irish.

Hopefully it will also help with the revival of Irish, and get us onto that EU list of official languages, if we are still being considered.

We are now on the Official list
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0613/irishlanguage.html

Naos

Yes! That is brilliant. Delighted Gaelige has been accepted.

Jimi Spandex: Yes you will learn Irish from using XP as Gaelige. Have you ever used a foreign computer before? Im in Spain and using an Italian laptop and a German laptop.
I know Trennen is german for Disconnect, Verbindung is Connect. I dont know those words in Irish. There is a good few words I know now in both these langauges. Its called Imersion..

axer

I think this is great. I can hold conversations in irish no problem but I would not know any tech words and I'm sure I would learn a huge amount from using xp in irish.

axer

Brilliant!! It showed "failte" when I clicked on my name to login and the start menu is now "Tosaigh". Brilliant!!!!
Anyone know what "this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down" is in irish???!!!! I just hope that serious errors are in english - i'm only a beginner really.
If worst comes to worse - how to I switch between english and irish? or can i?

de5p0i1er

I know alot of ppl who'll be glad to hear that. Its good news for the Irish speaking communities around the country.

Bottle_of_Smoke

Gah Irish getting sooooo trendy, HECTOR! all HECTOR'S fault!

Mr Rivers

And where can ya get it?

Irishstabber

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0DB2E8F9-79C4-4625-A07A-0CC1B341BE7C&displaylang=ga

Think thats it??

axtradub12

Irishstabber wrote:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=0DB2E8F9-79C4-4625-A07A-0CC1B341BE7C&displaylang=ga

Think thats it??

go raibh maith agat

Andrew 83

Anyone worked out how to switch back to English?!

Hagar

It will only install if you have sp2 installed.
I thought I read somewhere that installing sp2 was a bad idea?

Andrew 83

If anyone wants to change back to English how you do it is run the install file again and select 'Bain' and it uninstalls the Irish language settings and reverts to English.

dead air

I installed it

DonkeyStyle \o/

Excellent!!
Finally.
I've been struggling with this English language version of XP for so long.

tba

DonkeyStyle \o/ wrote:

Excellent!!
Finally.
I've been struggling with this English language version of XP for so long.

we all have man..... we all have

pickarooney

That's taking the piss. 'Rith' for 'Run', FFS!

Hagar

I think its worth dowloading and trying. After all if no one downloads it, its going to be impossible to get any big software company to anything like that again.
As Mear says he is working on a mix of languages on various machines in Spain.
I'm doing the same here in France and did it in Spain also, it a little difficult not impossible.
Languages are not barriers they are merely local conventions.

pickarooney

But the keyboards, man, the keyboards! AZERTY my QRSE
How's life in Cavalaire? I'm thinking of moving down that direction in about 6 months.

Hagar

Bring spare keyboards. Buy a good one and a few cheap ones.
I know a guy who tried to be clever and ordered from Jes...
Yup. a German keyboard arrived.

The living is good. The weather is glorious.
Schorchio or "canicule" as they say down here.
I recommend it to anyone.
If you, or anyone else, is coming down this neck of the woods let me know and we'll organise a splinter group of the "Board's Beers".

pickarooney

I had a nocturnal, half-asleep vision the other night about a keyboard with transparent keys and little pads covered with tiny LEDs underneath forming the letters. Changing a setting would make the LEDs change to spell out different letters corresponding to the requested keyboard layout.

Does it sound like a goer?

I'd definitely be on for a Boards Wines evening

Mimikyu

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Hagar

pickarooney wrote:

I had a nocturnal, half-asleep vision the other night about a keyboard with transparent keys and little pads covered with tiny LEDs underneath forming the letters. Changing a setting would make the LEDs change to spell out different letters corresponding to the requested keyboard layout.

Does it sound like a goer?

I'd definitely be on for a Boards Wines evening

My patent attorney just filed the idea. Thanks

Yes, a verre rosé sounds good to me too.

axer

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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truly patriotic

StupidLikeAFox

DeValera would be proud of ye all

Solitaryman666 wrote:

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Also look how that link has "ganteideal" instead of "untitled". Thet thought of EVERYTHING!

Puteq

Andrew 83 wrote:

If anyone wants to change back to English how you do it is run the install file again and select 'Bain' and it uninstalls the Irish language settings and reverts to English.

Sorry to dredge up this ancient thread, but I only just discovered this XP as Gaeilge recently and wanted to run this by everyone - is there no better way than completely uninstalling it to change languages? I mean its great that XP is in Irish and all, but it isn't very useful for a computer that multiple people access if not all of them want the Irish version? It would be good if it was possible to temporarily revert it back to English if someone was gonna use the computer who preferred English?

Ah well its still cool.

DonkeyStyle \o/

You only get two ancient-thread-drag-ups per year... use them wisely

RE: the question, I've no idea... I would have thought it a nice feature to have different language settings per user account that changes with logins... but can't say I've ever really explored XPs language options.

btw, anyone know if there's a Klingon language pack? ... I bet some crazy geek made one

BMH

Is it just me, or are the instructions for Firefox browsers?
Can it see which one you're using and change what page you'd view? All the pictures to show what to do are for Firefox...

_Kaiser_

Puteq wrote:

Sorry to dredge up this ancient thread, but I only just discovered this XP as Gaeilge recently and wanted to run this by everyone - is there no better way than completely uninstalling it to change languages? I mean its great that XP is in Irish and all, but it isn't very useful for a computer that multiple people access if not all of them want the Irish version? It would be good if it was possible to temporarily revert it back to English if someone was gonna use the computer who preferred English?

Ah well its still cool.

Last time I looked at this a few months ago (one of the places I look after is in a Gaeltact area), there was no way to switch back aside from uninstalling it completely as you say.

Probably best asking in the Computers>OS>Windows forum though...

axer

BMH wrote:

Is it just me, or are the instructions for Firefox browsers?
Can it see which one you're using and change what page you'd view? All the pictures to show what to do are for Firefox...

Not just you and yes they can tell what browser you are using - very easy to do.

EDIT: Heres how you can do it if you are interested.

Sauce

If you partition your hard drive and install the english version on one partition and the irish version on another partition, the user will then be able to select which version they want when starting up the computer

aidan_walsh

Puteq wrote:

Sorry to dredge up this ancient thread, but I only just discovered this XP as Gaeilge recently and wanted to run this by everyone - is there no better way than completely uninstalling it to change languages? I mean its great that XP is in Irish and all, but it isn't very useful for a computer that multiple people access if not all of them want the Irish version? It would be good if it was possible to temporarily revert it back to English if someone was gonna use the computer who preferred English?

Ah well its still cool.

This isn't possible because of the way that Windows uses several different locale settings. They are all explained here.

BMH

axer wrote:

Not just you and yes they can tell what browser you are using - very easy to do.

EDIT: Heres how you can do it if you are interested.

Good to see MS are starting to stop trying to kill Firefox. Last time I tried to download something from them, the authentification process could only work in IE.

bushy...

pickarooney wrote:

I had a nocturnal, half-asleep vision the other night about a keyboard with transparent keys and little pads covered with tiny LEDs underneath forming the letters. Changing a setting would make the LEDs change to spell out different letters corresponding to the requested keyboard layout.

Does it sound like a goer?

Hate to do this but is this what you were thinking of ?
http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/

_Kaiser_

bushy... wrote:

Hate to do this but is this what you were thinking of ?
http://www.artlebedev.com/portfolio/optimus/

That's cool... bound to be expensive tho!

Setun

I downloaded the XP as gaeilge a good while back, trying to study irish and that, but I couldn't figure out how to get rid off the bloody thing because all the options/help were in Irish. Caveat Emptor.

chamlis

I've been a fan of Google as gaeilge for ages, so this'll be cool.

It's free, lads. Try it. I will.

Peteee

pickarooney wrote:

That's taking the piss. 'Rith' for 'Run', FFS!

What wrong with this, exactly?

The Real B-man

Wow what a waste of time & development for the 100 Muckers who will use it

snickerpuss

I wish word was as gaeilge so i could write my essays without the computer freaking out.

axer

snickerpuss wrote:

I wish word was as gaeilge so i could write my essays without the computer freaking out.

Your wish has been granted. You can get MS Office 2003 in Irish. You can also get Irish proofing tools to check spelling etc. See here.

Now what are your other 2 wishes

sceptre

Peteee wrote:

What wrong with this, exactly?

So many things, so many things. Try it in a sentence.

simu

Cuirfidh mé ar mo ríomhaire é chun nesf a chrá!

(I'll put it on my computer to piss nesf off)!

nesf

The Real B-man wrote:

Wow what a waste of time & development for the 100 Muckers who will use it

Buachaill dána! Ar mhaith leat leanúint ar aghaidh anseo?

nesf

simu wrote:

(I'll put in on my computer to piss nesf off)!

That should be it not in.

*grumbles about non-native English speakers*

simu

nesf wrote:

That should be it not in.

*grumbles about non-native English speakers*

^^^ result