Xref: utzoo comp.misc:7043 comp.unix.questions:16677 comp.windows.x:13899 sci.lang.japan:760 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ginosko!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!draken!ianf From: ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.windows.x,sci.lang.japan Subject: Re: Marketing wizardry & handling of far-east languages. Summary: Far-east languages? What about the near-central-European ones? Message-ID: <1823@draken.nada.kth.se> Date: 1 Oct 89 04:17:44 GMT References: <5557@tank.uchicago.edu> <2033@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> Reply-To: ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 34 In article <2033@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> ry@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (ryerson.schwark,sf,) comments upon Richard Goerwitz' conclusion: > Arndt Johanssen [...] > will probably have to settle for a short-sighted hack > that some independent firm, or else some national branch of a larger > firm, has developed to meet his particular sort of need. thus: > Not True! AT&T [...] > have created some generalized solutions to address both Asian > and European languages. Oh, yes? I challenge you to come up with a solution to the Polish, Slovak, Czech, Croatian, Latvian and few other European Latin-character alfabets not currently cared for in either the EBCDIC, the "8-bit ASCII," or the DEC Multinational character sets. Not to mention the present-day's TOTAL inability to address/ display/ communicate with computers in bi- lingual or multi-lingual mode... Seems to me any solution to the above that is based on post-addressing "the problem" instead of making it a part of the basic-design stage is bound to fail in the end.... see the "short-sighted hacks" that Richard was talking about. P.S. The computer czars have gotten away with it so far. Now that Poland is about to re-join the Western society (in principle if not yet in spirit) there is one less excuse for not catering to 'East- European Commie languages' -- ---- ------ ianf@nada.kth.se/ @sekth.bitnet/ uunet!nada.kth.se!ianf ---- --