Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 02:38:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> To: Taavi Talvik <taavi@uninet.ee> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004050226290.11214-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.1000405103354.15319A-100000@ns.uninet.ee>
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Taavi Talvik wrote:
> > the _replacement_ for languages/charsets handling infrastructure -- "we
> > know all the characters, so we can write all the words, right?".
>
> Multilingual tools market and small? Get real - just China and India
> together are >2 billion possible users.
They don't use "true multilingual" software -- they have their own
charsets and encodings, and are quite content with them, not having to
care about others' charsets. Contrary to popular belief, Chinese and
Japanese are not waiting for benevolent American programmers to provide
them with "multilingual" software -- they just use local charsets in
existing one, sometimes having to modify it (in rather ad-hoc manner) to
support multibyte where necessary.
It can be called shortsightedness or isolationism, but this is how
things are -- market for true multilingual software is in its infancy.
Poorly designed solutions for multilingual documents handling are
considered to be acceptable because people who are "targeted" by them
neither use them nor really care about multilingual documents, and people
who actually use those things have very limited applications.
--
Alex
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