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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newshost.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!seunet!news2.swip.net!init.se!not-for-mail From: mla@init.se (Mats Lofstrom) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Date: 25 Aug 1995 08:57:45 +0200 Organization: init ab Lines: 24 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <41js99$jq3@ming.init.se> References: <405hjb$llr@news.jhu.edu> <4099s8$6ep@empire.texas.net> <40atpg$psj@nova.netapp.com> <40c5ul$jn8@light.twinsun.com> <40g7s4$eut@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <40nfjb$f43@centralnews1.Central.Sun.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: ming.init.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.sun.admin:51936 comp.unix.solaris:44734 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:711 Steve McKinty - SunSoft ICNC Grenoble (smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM) wrote: : The last time I saw this discussed the reason for the removal of : such jokes was the growing international market. The "tune a fish" : pun really only works for a person with a good knowledge of English, : if that manpage were given to a translator to be turned into, say, : Greater Cthulian, they might either miss the joke completely, or : perhaps find that it translated into something offensive. It's very nice to see some effort on i18n, but I rather keep the (harmless) jokes if I got some REAL i18n! Unix (and the communication between Unix boxes), no matter what brand, still can't handle 8/16 bits characters. If I used the Swedish characters a-ring, a-dieresis, and o-dieresis in this mail, most of you guys would read e, d, and v. I even can't spell my name right! To defend the removal of jokes with a concern of the international audience, seems to be a poor excuse from some <censored>! mla -- Mats Löfström init ab mla@init.se http://www.init.se +46 70 594 1773