I've hod the opportunity to develop wo mulhilingual systems. The first wos o speciol purpose u decision support system to help schedule orders in paper soges in simple lext iles. This Germon, Finnish, and Croation. This system enables the user to swiltch between languages at will by storing mes- n is far more flexible e each individual installation can revise the mes eral dozen poper mills in Conoda and the United States, sages at will. Without this approoch, it is unlikely thot and it was designed to work in either English or French there would have been sufficient demand to warrant the All messoges were stored in separate files (one set Eng- development of versions to use vari- s (e.g., Croatian). Hon Dennis ables initialized either to the English or French text. The appropriate lgnguage files were included when the sys tem was compiled to produce either the French or English version QuESTIONS 1. How would you decide how much to support us who speak languages other than English program wos a groupware system 2. Would you create multilingual copobilities for clled GroupSystems, for which I designed several mod. applicotion that would be available to non-Eng)l ules. The system has been tronslated into dozens of dil. speaking people? Think obout Web sites that exist ferent longuoges, including French, Spanish, Portuguese, loday