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- From: andrew@alice.att.com (Andrew Hume)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: An alternative I18N paradigm
- Summary: yes, this is too naive.
- Message-ID: <24495@alice.att.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 06:45:54 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24495
- References: <24479@alice.att.com> <1hkff3EINN5uv@uni-erlangen.de>
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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- no, you cannot simply wish the problem away by insisting
- on a single locale for everyone. there simply exist different
- local conventions and formats which may be politically, culturally, or
- legally required. you (we) have to deal with them. the challenge is to
- do so in a comprehensible fashion.
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- andrew
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