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- From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Data tagging (was: 8-bit representation, plus an X problem)
- Message-ID: <2563@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 17:58:37 GMT
- References: <24426@alice.att.com| <1gpruaINNhfm@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk> <ISHIKAWA.92Dec22180817@ds5200.personal-media.co.jp> <24479@alice.att.com>
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- In article <24479@alice.att.com>
- andrew@alice.att.com (Andrew Hume) writes:
-
- > however, as i hinted and perhaps should have emphasised,
- >plan 9 does not address i18n as such. although support for large
- >or alternate characters is a prerequisite to i18n, you need a bunch more.
-
- Surely.
-
- >Locales, in this sense, are a complete and utter mistake.
- >don't misunderstand me, they are totally wrong as well.
-
- I agree with you.
-
- > the more insidious problem is that a bunch of the locale functionality
- >(and certainly most of the stuff about language and scripts) is
- >bound tightly to the data, and not to the processing of it. for example,
- >japanese better get rendered as japanese no matter what your locale is.
-
- I heard that, microsoft's NT will have a locale mechanism so that
- it can print Japanes Han as Japanese and Chinese Han as Chinese,
- which is impossible with bare 10646/Unicode.
-
- Then, how can we have a file containing both Japanese and Chinese?
-
- >another example is the issue of system error messages; what language
- >(for example) should they be in?
-
- >customer satisfaction is high
- >until the first time someone attaches a file server with dutch language
- >errors, follows a sym link through a file server attached with french
- >messages, and the file doesn't exist.
-
- Shouldn't we use error numbers internally and interprete it by local
- programs?
-
- Masataka Ohta
-