From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 12 07:44:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA22716 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 07:44:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailgate.cadence.com (mailgate.Cadence.COM [158.140.2.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA22528 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 07:43:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: (from smap@localhost) by mailgate.cadence.com (8.8.5/8.6.8) id HAA09471; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 07:43:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806121443.HAA09471@mailgate.cadence.com> Received: from unknown(194.32.96.130) by mailgate.cadence.com via smap (mjr-v1.2) id xma897662595.009455; Fri, 12 Jun 98 07:43:15 -0700 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Duncan Barclay" To: Terry Lambert , nik@iii.co.uk, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 15:42:55 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: internationalization Reply-to: dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk CC: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh In-reply-to: <19980612125645.26761@iii.co.uk> References: <199806120309.UAA11238@usr09.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 03:09:02AM +0000 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.53/R1) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 03:09:02AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > The origins of Kanji as an ideogrammatic writing system owe more to > > the need for Imperial China to control the availability of persistent > > information available to Chinese Serfs in support of a feudal society > > than they do to their information density compared to alphabetic > > writing systems. > > I have absolutely nothing to add to the discussion, I just want to > hold up the above paragraph as a shining example of why I like these > mailing lists so much :-) I agree, I tend to save more of Terry's articles for the non-computing content than those of other people (as well as saving many for the computing content of course)! Terry, how do you manage to keep all this in your head, or are you a more advanced version of the JKH Tcl script with AltaVista plug in? Duncan Tongue firmly in cheek! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message