Date: Wed, 18 Jan 95 21:14:28 -0800 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com> To: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> Cc: terry@cs.weber.edu, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Internationalization (was Re: CVS stuff) Message-ID: <199501190514.VAA00764@netcom8.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Jan 95 01:11:47 GMT." <199501190111.BAA02956@isl.cf.ac.uk>
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I wrote: > the English bias of Unix etc. is much more pervasive. How > would one translate `cat', `sh', `uucp' etc. to other > languages? Without English language background these words > make _no_ sense. But it would be equally nonsensical to Paul Richard responds: > Hmm, interesting viewpoint :-) > A cat is a small furry animal that has an annoying habit of sleeping on > clothes that have just been ironed and you were hoping to wear out that > night. Just what do you do that wears out your clothes in a night? A date with a file? You English are weirder than I thought :-) But seriously, what I was getting at is that *ideally* one would want a native language interface to unix -- file names, commands, man pages, the whole thing. Except that some things just don't translate. One can have fun with silly translations but they would be much too obscure. Bakul
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