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Apple follows the spirit of current times
Decades ago Microsoft started to do internationalisation of it's
products in a bad way - one of the reasons I don't like MS Windows.
This went over the top in many places (besides some really bad translations)
for example in Excel where you can't use a file containing formulas in an
Excel instance using a different language. As a side note - Excel
still produces CSV files that it can't read again.
Back to the file system: an existing path /Users/XXX becomes
/Benutzer/XXX in a system set to German. This works as long as you don't
use some shell or configuration files which store a path. Plain stupid.
I always set my systems to English because of that and I did this also
for my Macs for years. Until recently I was not aware that Apple does
the same bad thing - I saw it on a friend's Mac which was set to German.
But Apple even went further. They used "gender" language. This whole
gender thing is something I could ignore - in English it doesn't do
much harm to the language, I think.
But: In German it in fact destroys the language.
So the home directory of a user on a Mac set to German now becomes:
/Benutzer:innen/XXX instead of /Users/XXX.
In Germany more than 70% of the population are against this phenomenon.
It is imposed on the majority by a fanatic minority and by the
government media (which claim to be independent).
Now Apple is also in line.
I already abandoned iPhone use after Apple announced "client side scanning
for child porn" and after establishing their massive geo-tracking of users
even if they don't want it. Time to abandon the use of their computers also.