Canadian English

There are three options for Canada when setting up Vista - or going back and
trying to change your language options. These are: french, different french,
and french. Multilingual is stupid, a misnomer at best, and my winner for
euphemism of the year.

Multilingual in Canada - are you serious? What characters do we use in
English that the french don't use? What a joke.

I need to know if the other 31.5 million of us have an option for CANADIAN
ENGLISH (yes, it's different from other Englishes, including UK English) so
that spell checkers won't be trying to get me to 'realize' that I should be
able to spell 'neighbor' with a 'u' and 'realize' with an 's'.

I want to use my forward slash key '/' without getting a french 'accent
aigu' diacritical mark above a useless 'e'.

I find it very hard to believe that Microsoft would take a serious step
backwards from previous Windows versions, or have an oversight this glaring
when they're going to great lengths to ensure they have Eskimo dialects and
regional dialects of Swahili.

Again, how do I set up to use CANADIAN ENGLISH?

Unfortunately, you will have to use the US keyboard setting. "Canadian
English" refers only to the keyboard, not to the spelling. And the
characters that the French use are the è, é, and the ç. As far as the
spelling goes, you will have to do what we Canadians have been doing for
years with Microsoft (and other) programs, and train your spell checker by
adding the Canadian spellings of words as necessary. (Previous spell
checkers in MSWord did not have Canadian spelling versions; if you found
them in yours, perhaps someone had 'trained' it before you.) You will also
have to add purely Canadian words, of which there are a few.

LesleyO
English-speaking Montréal-born Canadian living in Alberta

"My Display Name" <My Display > wrote in
message news:272115E5-5AB6-4243-B1FF-...
> There are three options for Canada when setting up Vista - or going back
> and
> trying to change your language options. These are: french, different
> french,
> and french. Multilingual is stupid, a misnomer at best, and my winner for
> euphemism of the year.
>
> Multilingual in Canada - are you serious? What characters do we use in
> English that the french don't use? What a joke.
>
> I need to know if the other 31.5 million of us have an option for CANADIAN
> ENGLISH (yes, it's different from other Englishes, including UK English)
> so
> that spell checkers won't be trying to get me to 'realize' that I should
> be
> able to spell 'neighbor' with a 'u' and 'realize' with an 's'.
>
> I want to use my forward slash key '/' without getting a french 'accent
> aigu' diacritical mark above a useless 'e'.
>
> I find it very hard to believe that Microsoft would take a serious step
> backwards from previous Windows versions, or have an oversight this
> glaring
> when they're going to great lengths to ensure they have Eskimo dialects
> and
> regional dialects of Swahili.
>
> Again, how do I set up to use CANADIAN ENGLISH?

"LesleyO " <> wrote in message
news:%...
>> There are three options for Canada when setting up Vista - or going back
>> and
>> trying to change your language options. These are: french, different
>> french,
>> and french. Multilingual is stupid, a misnomer at best, and my winner
>> for
>> euphemism of the year.
>>
>> Multilingual in Canada - are you serious? What characters do we use in
>> English that the french don't use? What a joke.
>>
>> I need to know if the other 31.5 million of us have an option for
>> CANADIAN
>> ENGLISH (yes, it's different from other Englishes, including UK English)
>> so
>> that spell checkers won't be trying to get me to 'realize' that I should
>> be
>> able to spell 'neighbor' with a 'u' and 'realize' with an 's'.
>>
>> I want to use my forward slash key '/' without getting a french 'accent
>> aigu' diacritical mark above a useless 'e'.
>>
>> I find it very hard to believe that Microsoft would take a serious step
>> backwards from previous Windows versions, or have an oversight this
>> glaring
>> when they're going to great lengths to ensure they have Eskimo dialects
>> and
>> regional dialects of Swahili.
>>
>> Again, how do I set up to use CANADIAN ENGLISH?
> Unfortunately, you will have to use the US keyboard setting. "Canadian
> English" refers only to the keyboard, not to the spelling. And the
> characters that the French use are the è, é, and the ç. As far as the
> spelling goes, you will have to do what we Canadians have been doing for
> years with Microsoft (and other) programs, and train your spell checker by
> adding the Canadian spellings of words as necessary. (Previous spell
> checkers in MSWord did not have Canadian spelling versions; if you found
> them in yours, perhaps someone had 'trained' it before you.) You will also
> have to add purely Canadian words, of which there are a few.


I'm surprised at that. I suppose starting with UK English and then adding
your own custom dictionary may be the best idea, but what programs is the OP
referring to?

ss.