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- From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.051858.17562@netcom.com>
- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
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- References: <1992Dec18.043033.14254@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec18.212323.26882@netcom.com> <1992Dec18.235809.15484@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 05:18:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.235809.15484@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
- >>
- >>>One of the big criticisms leveled at US Engineers is that they are either
- >>>too dumb or lazy to build into their software support for non-Western
- >>>scripts. Given that Linux originates in Europe, can we look forward to
- >>>better support for Unicode and ISO10646? At least for "long" charac-
- >>>ter definitions?
- >>
- >>Yeah, that's probably why NT supports Unicode, it's those dumb US
- >>Engineers... Could we lay off idiotic generalizations and stick to
- >>technical aspects of the software? It's business that dictates what's
- >>included in the package. If it makes economic sense, it will be there.
- >
- >Don't be so quick to criticize. The December issue of UNIX world has
- >a few funny stories about American gaffes in Europe, and I've personally
- >heard many stories from Europeans myself along the same lines. I'd be
- >willing to bet that less than 5% of US software engineers even speak a
- >foreign language beyond the level of a few parlez vous. One of the big
- >problems we have is precisely the attitude that you display, namely that
- >most localizations should be done on-site. This is fine if multilingual
- >support is built into the basic distributions, but really stupid if it
- >isn't.
- >
- >As for economic sense, I have the same feeling about American's in the
- >mid- and large-range computer business that I have about Detroit. They
- >simply aren't as aware as they should be about what their customers
- >really want. NT will be a welcome departure from the past, if in fact
- >it offers true multilingual support. We'll see.
- >
- >--
- >
- > -Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
- > goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer
-
- Although not a major player in the market Unisys did offer
- internalization on many of their applications.
-
- The part that few US software engineers speak another language is
- strange to me at least around here in Silicon Valley. What is strange
- is to find a software engineer who only speaks english.
-
-
- I speak Spanish and was raised in Puerto Rico :-)
-
- Amancio Hasty
-
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