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From: carlton@scws8.harvard.edu (david carlton)
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Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
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Date: 21 Dec 92 21:35:48 GMT
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In-reply-to: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk's message of Sat, 19 Dec 1992 20:28:41 GMT
In article <BzIwvu.3BE@demon.co.uk>, gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
> PS What's the general feeling on i18n here? I make my stuff (like my
> bsd spell clone) 8 bit clean, but haven't given any thought to > 8 bit
> alphabets. Is it chauvinistic to take the attitude that the extra work
> (if any) for 8 bit isn't much, for a significantly larger market but
> > 8 bit involves a lot of work for an insignificantly larger market?
I certainly wouldn't call it an insignificantly larger market. Huge
numbers of people use Chinese, Japanese, and other languages whose
scripts don't fit in 8 bits, after all. Whether it is worth the
effort to you is another matter, though; if you spend too much time
worrying about that sort of stuff, you'll never get anything written,
after all, and I'm certainly not going to say that
internationalization should be high on your list of priorities. It
isn't on mine, after all; most of the programming that I do is for my
own benefit.
david carlton
carlton@husc.harvard.edu
Rex, lui, il s'est mis `a manger les b'egonias, mais c'est
moins grave que pour le fauteuil du salon, parce que nous
avons plus de b'egonias que de fauteuils.
- Semp'e / Goscinny