RE: tlug: FXMail 1.2 -> 1.3

["Jonathan Byrne--3Web" <jq@example.com>]

-----Original Message-----
差出人 : Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>


>It's a lot of extra work/hassle to do this.  If it were easy and simple,
>I'm sure everyone would do it.  Just using gettext isn't enough, either,


I didn't say it was easy :-)  But I think we can make a certain case for it
being The Right Thing, in so far as most of the world's people are native
users of double-byte languages, and more and more of them get computers
every day. If nothing else pushes developers to make more double-byte
software, it will be the rising economic status of China.  There, we're
looking at a country that will someday have well over 500,000,000 computers
users.  Add in the population of Japan, Korea, and the Chinese diaspora
throughout East Asia and in other parts of the world, and it's easy to
envision a situation in which most of the world's computer users are doing
double-byte languages.  When that's the case, it's not as difficult to
imagine MS, Apple, and other big software makers to do a double-byte OS as
standard, since so many of them have to be that way anyway that it might
make more economic sense to just do it that way in the first place and be
done with it.

If that  happens, we could reasonably expect a lot of applications software
to follow suit, because you can always use it in the English version to do
nothing but US ASCII, if that's what you want.

I'm not waiting for this to happen overnight, since China is a long way from
that point, but it could happen 10 years down the road.

Jonathan

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