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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5409 ; Thu, 24 Dec 92 03:01:16 EST Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:9281 comp.os.linux:20188 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!messina From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST) Message-ID: <1992Dec22.060230.12406@netcom.com> Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages Organization: Messina Software References: <1992Dec18.043033.14254@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec18.212323.26882@netcom.com> <1992Dec19.083137.4400@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Dec19.173647.12322@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:02:30 GMT Lines: 17 goer@ellis.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz) writes: >This isn't mean to be a gripe, incidentally. I just want to point out >our great cultural isolation, and note that, with this kind of disad- >vantage, can we realistically expect to design systems for the world as >a whole? As someone already pointed out, I think you have a skewed image of "our great cultural isolation". Here, is Silicon Valley, you have lots of software engineers from various countries and a fantastic cultural mixture. On the floor where I work I could probably count people from 8-10 different countries speaking 25-30 languages fluently (with Asian and Indian languages being represented quite prominently). What cultural isolation are you talking about? Chicago? Then don't apply it to software industry. t.