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- From: peter@sug.org (Peter Salus)
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
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- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
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- References: <1hu9v5INNbp1@rodan.UU.NET> <8490@charon.cwi.nl> <1992Dec31.110735.17551@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:06:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.110735.17551@infodev.cam.ac.uk> ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:
- >In article <8490@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
- >But 'locale' is not just country; in the locale of names in telephone
- >directories, 'Mac<uppercase>' sorts with 'Mc<uppercase>', 'St.' is expanded
- >to 'Saint' etc.
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- Yes, indded. And this leads to such brilliant expansions of
- [in Boston] St. Botolph St. to Saint Botolph Saint or
- Street Botolph Saint, etc.
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- Peter
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