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- From: carlton@scws8.harvard.edu (david carlton)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Message-ID: <CARLTON.92Dec21163548@scws8.harvard.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:35:48 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.235809.15484@midway.uchicago.edu> <agp22+#@rpi.edu> <1gvpt0INN8s0@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <BzIwvu.3BE@demon.co.uk>
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- In-reply-to: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk's message of Sat, 19 Dec 1992 20:28:41 GMT
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- In article <BzIwvu.3BE@demon.co.uk>, gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
-
- > PS What's the general feeling on i18n here? I make my stuff (like my
- > bsd spell clone) 8 bit clean, but haven't given any thought to > 8 bit
- > alphabets. Is it chauvinistic to take the attitude that the extra work
- > (if any) for 8 bit isn't much, for a significantly larger market but
- > > 8 bit involves a lot of work for an insignificantly larger market?
-
- I certainly wouldn't call it an insignificantly larger market. Huge
- numbers of people use Chinese, Japanese, and other languages whose
- scripts don't fit in 8 bits, after all. Whether it is worth the
- effort to you is another matter, though; if you spend too much time
- worrying about that sort of stuff, you'll never get anything written,
- after all, and I'm certainly not going to say that
- internationalization should be high on your list of priorities. It
- isn't on mine, after all; most of the programming that I do is for my
- own benefit.
-
- david carlton
- carlton@husc.harvard.edu
-
- Rex, lui, il s'est mis `a manger les b'egonias, mais c'est
- moins grave que pour le fauteuil du salon, parce que nous
- avons plus de b'egonias que de fauteuils.
- - Semp'e / Goscinny
-