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From: warack@aero.ARPA (Chris Warack)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: more diacritical marks...
Message-ID: <385@aero.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 17:04:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: aero.385
Posted: Wed Aug 21 17:04:33 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 01:37:53 EDT
References: <487@talcott.UUCP> <998@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <1000@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Reply-To: warack@aero.UUCP (Chris Warack)
Followup-To: net.micro.mac
Organization: The Discordian Society
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Summary: Computers handling foreign alphabets, ...

nk it's a little heavy handed to argue
>that our alphabet should prevail because much computer development took
>place in an English-speaking (rahter, -writing) context?  Try the shoe on the
>other foot.  What if the standards had come from a country that doesn't use
>`W'?  Now the Americans come along and say Isn't there some way you guys
>could please fit in `W', just for us to use here?  And the answer comes:
>well you don't really need it, just use 'U'.  
[...]

One of the 'features' of the Macintosh [the computer for the rest of
us] is that the keyboard, time format, theoretically anything, can be
modified when the thing's turned on to fit any country's needs in a
satisfactory manner...  How well it succeeds, I don't know.  I do know
that it is used in France, in French.  I have also seen Japanese fonts
for the Mac but this is a long way from being 'Japanese-friendly.'

Anyways, at least someone is taking a step to adapt.  Note that this
'feature' is available on EVERY Mac, even those in the US.  Also noticed
that I directed follow-up to net.micro.mac.

Chris
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