Xref: utzoo comp.misc:7023 comp.unix.questions:16617 comp.windows.x:13847 sci.lang.japan:745 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!amelia!pioneer.arc.nasa.gov!samlb From: samlb@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Sam Bassett RCD) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.windows.x,sci.lang.japan Subject: Re: Marketing wizardry & handling of far-east languages. Message-ID: <3260@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> Date: 28 Sep 89 18:06:35 GMT References: <5508@zyx.ZYX.SE> <5557@tank.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@amelia.nas.nasa.gov Reply-To: samlb@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Sam Bassett RCD) Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center Lines: 20 I heartily agree that U.S. companies are, for the most part, abysmally ignorant about internationalization. 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 know what kind of butchery _I_ do to the languages I half-know, and have seen that kind of English . . . Sam'l Bassett, Sterling Software @ NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA 94035 Work: (415) 694-4792; Home: (415) 969-2644 samlb@well.sf.ca.us samlb@ames.arc.nasa.gov:= 'Sterling doesn't _have_ opinions -- much less NASA!'