{"id":1030,"date":"2005-05-15T10:55:29","date_gmt":"2005-05-15T15:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2005-05-15T14:25:26","modified_gmt":"2005-05-15T19:25:26","slug":"localized-read-me-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/15\/localized-read-me-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Localized Read Me Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nWith Tiger, Mac OS X no longer hides the <tt>.app<\/tt> extension, so one can see that the Read Me file included with iTunes 4.8 is, despite its RTF icon, a Cocoa application. Inside it are 14 localized <tt>.rtf<\/tt> files. When you launch the application, it uses <tt>open<\/tt> to open the correct <tt>.rtf<\/tt> file and then quits. The other interesting feature is that since the Read Me application is a bundle, its <em>name<\/em> can be localized. On my machine, it shows up as <tt>Read Before You Install iTunes.app<\/tt>, but on a German system it would say <tt>Vor der Installation von iTunes lesen.app<\/tt>. You always see the <tt>iTunes4.mpkg<\/tt> file accompanied by a single Read Me in your own language.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nWhen did Apple start doing this [creating Read Me files as applications]? There&rsquo;s a third-party utility in beta that can create such applications, but I wasn&rsquo;t aware that Apple had blessed this design or provided its own tool for creating them.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Tiger, Mac OS X no longer hides the .app extension, so one can see that the Read Me file included with iTunes 4.8 is, despite its RTF icon, a Cocoa application. Inside it are 14 localized .rtf files. When you launch the application, it uses open to open the correct .rtf file and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}