Well, I'm not aware about this special case you are refering to, but this is a different problem than preserving the french language. What you are talking about is that when you are selling a product or a service in France, you must provide user manuals and support in the national language (french). So it's just a law which purpose is to guarantee that the customers will be able to have the best experience with what companies are selling them.
I guess that would not be possible in some countries like US where there's no official national language.
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The French are big with preserving their language. They once fined GE 600K€ for not translating some manuals into French.
Well, I'm not aware about this special case you are refering to, but this is a different problem than preserving the french language. What you are talking about is that when you are selling a product or a service in France, you must provide user manuals and support in the national language (french). So it's just a law which purpose is to guarantee that the customers will be able to have the best experience with what companies are selling them.
I guess that would not be possible in some countries like US where there's no official national language.
I don't think I exactly explained correctly. This article does a better job:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/01/opinion/france-gives-in-to...