From English To German

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The following are but a few of the changes that Apple's localization team made in modifying the U.S. Newton to work for German-speaking users.

   -- The cues for Newton's Intelligent Assistant, which interprets
      natural-language commands like "Fax Bob," required language changes.
   -- Date formats had to be changed. One of the less obvious ones was the
      calendar overview, which starts the week on Sunday in the U.S. but
      on a Monday in the German version.
   -- Time formats had to be changed to 24-hour mode and to handle the
      various ways you input time. Consider this partial list of valid
      time formats for handwritten entries in the date-book application
      (Uhr means o'clock): 3, 3 Uhr, 0, 0.00 Uhr, 0 Uhr, 22.32, 22.32 Uhr,
      07, 07 Uhr, 1.15 Uhr, 6:30, 6:30 Uhr, 6:6, 6:6 Uhr, 08.0
3, 08.03 Uhr,
      0:23, 0:23 Uhr, 13 Uhr 57, 2 Uhr 55, 02 Uhr 09, 02 Uhr 1, 02 Uhr 14,
      02 Uhr 0, 1 Uhr 1.
   -- Phone numbers, which are formatted as (000) 000-0000 in the U.S.,
      needed a more flexible format that accounts for the varying lengths
      of phone numbers in Germany.
   -- ZIP codes and currency symbol fields also needed to support formats
      of varying length.