Billions of dollars and Euro. Many billions. For AI and other bullshit.

But you still can't get an email client (MUA) to alter "Re:" into a national version on an incoming message for displaying (eg. Swedish "SV:" or German "AW:") and replace it into "Re:" on the way out again.

Losers.

@jpmens OTOH Re: might mean "regarding" in English as well, so… 😛
@jpmens That's because that prefix is Latin, and the RFCs for email mandate it. Translating it is a bogosity that Microsoft came up with because they care about standards the way the sun cares about the Dow Jones index

RE: https://mastodon.social/@aslakr/109789888503839904

@jpmens Even Apple's Mail mail client shows Re: as Sv: (in my language) to be Outlook/bissniss conformant.

The only client which did things correctly was MacSOUP that got rid of noise and only showed when the subject changed.

I also think it rewrote Aw:, SV: etc to Re: when writing a reply.

@jpmens I've have rules in my mutt configuration for that purpose since the 90s.

@jpmens How many billions of dollars does MS have?

Yet I keep getting a notification on my phone (which, for work reasons have the MS software installed):

"Synkroniserar Intune-princp"

For those who don't speak Swedish, "princip" is the Swedish for for "principle". As far as I know, the original English word is "principal".

Small things, but it hints at a deeper problem: They simply do not care about users, and especially users speaking other languages.

@jpmens re: aw: re: aw: (goes on for half a screen) re: (actual subject)