Xref: utzoo comp.misc:7033 comp.unix.questions:16643 comp.windows.x:13875 sci.lang.japan:757 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!voder!pyramid!athertn!Atherton.COM!tw From: tw@Atherton.COM (Tw Cook) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.windows.x,sci.lang.japan Subject: Re: Marketing wizardry & handling of far-east languages. Message-ID: <13153@athertn.Atherton.COM> Date: 29 Sep 89 17:31:27 GMT References: <3260@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <5508@zyx.ZYX.SE> <5557@tank.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@athertn.Atherton.COM Reply-To: tw@Atherton.COM (Tw Cook) Organization: Atherton Technology -- Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 18 In article <3260@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>, samlb@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Sam Bassett RCD) writes: > On the other hand, I would counsel the gentleman from Sweden to >get his company to form a partnership with a Japanese (Korean, etc.) >company to develop WP software for those languages. The Japanese, at >least, have put tremendous effort into handling romaji/katakana/kanji >input, output, and displays -- they are the _experts_ in the language, >after all, and know which optimizations and shortcuts will and will not >work. I second this recommendation. In my previous life at HP, handling foreign languages seemed to be a really big problem; always behind, not a very good job. Then they transferred a lot of the Unix commands work to an HP lab in Japan. Suddenly, the problem got much less severe! Tw