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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!ficc!peter
- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Message-ID: <id.74FW.RHB@ferranti.com>
- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1i0s05INNnfn@rodan.UU.NET> <1993Jan1.114158.17149@prl.dec.com> <1i2emiINN2td@rodan.UU.NET>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:19:39 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1i2emiINN2td@rodan.UU.NET> avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
- > Don't you realize that having trivial programs to ask which language
- > they're doing operation in effectively defeats the entire purpose of
- > Unicode?
-
- Luckily, they don't have to.
-
- > Should my shell ask me about language of every [a-z] in my
- > commands?
-
- No, what happens if you have a file name in French in the middle of a
- directory full of English names? I've got just that situation on my Amiga,
- in the preferences files for some programs: Espa~na.lang, Fran,cais.lang.
- With UTF I'm sure I'll have Cyrillic, Hebrew, Han, and Czech filenames.
-
- In most cases it doesn't matter. Where it does, it's not a trivial matter
- (for example, in Holland you probably want files to sort using the Dutch
- dictionary order... not the Scandinavian one... no matter what language
- the word is actually in).
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