Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Marketing wizardry & handling of far-east languages. Message-ID: <11208@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 2 Oct 89 18:18:43 GMT References: <5557@tank.uchicago.edu> <2033@cbnewsl.ATT.COM> <1823@draken.nada.kth.se> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 17 In article <1823@draken.nada.kth.se> ianf@nada.kth.se (Ian Feldman) writes: - 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... You haven't been paying attention. - ... there is one less excuse for not catering to 'East- - European Commie languages' I know of no one working in the field of "internationalization" who thinks in such terms. Instead of relying on your imagination for guidance about what others are doing, why not do some research and find out the facts.