Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 17:06:39 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), tlambert@primenet.com, itojun@iijlab.net, joy@urc.ac.ru, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: internationalization Message-ID: <199806120006.RAA01633@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jun 1998 18:02:07 PDT." <199806120102.SAA13195@tao.thought.org>
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> According to Mike Smith: > > This is clearly fallacious, as evidenced by Ito-san's earlier message. > > It is not uncommon for the ordinary asiatic citizen to want to use > > several locale's glyph sets in a single context. > > Or then again, scholarly work is being done increasingly > by computer. I'm familiar with Thais doing translations > from Sanskrit to Thai and Manadarin, for example. > > If we limit ourselves to the computer-nerd|geek mindset > we are short-circuiting our potential. It's still perhaps debatable as to whether this is an issue for the system domain or the application domain, however. As Terry points out, the goal here is to be able to present messages to the user in their native language and character set. I think that there's a fairly wide slew of perspective here, and some confusion as to what the various targets of desire are. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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