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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.
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Date: 29 Sep 89 17:31:27 GMT
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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