Re: tlug: Japanese filenames (was: EUC & SJIS)

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

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>    Rex> On Thu, Sep 10, 1998 at 01:29:13PM +0000, Karl-Max Wagner
>    Rex> wrote:
>
<SNIP>
>    Rex> me as, say, forcing everyone in the world to sit in those
>    Rex> horrid knee-chairs (or whatever those stupid contraptions
>
>You mean the ones that made my lower back pain disappear?

Wow, what a nested batch of quotes!  But I agree with you about those chairs,
they're kind of nice.  I used one for quite a while back in California.  I
always wished it had had casters, though.  But I bet there must be some
available that do.

>But that's partly due to the fact that despite 50 years of
>"kampe-n"ing for "kokusaika", the typical Japanese is as interested in 
>things international as a middle school student in Kansas.

Are you sure the interest is that high?  ;-)

>>>>>> "jb" == Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com> writes:
>
>    jb> On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Karl-Max Wagner wrote:
>
>    >> Let's face it. English is a de facto standard in everything
>    >> that smacks technology. We can be sure that everybody using
>    >> computers has a good working knowledge of it.
>
>    jb> That is a completely unwarranted assumption.
>

>Not according to Monbusho.  FUD wo yamete kudasai. ;-)

If Monbusho thinks that everybody using computers has a good working knowledge
of English, than I know for sure I'm right and that is definitely a totally
unwarranted assumption :-)

>    jb> Moreover, why would a person who couldn't read Japanese want
>    jb> to download a file that was in Japanese anyway?
>
>Because the background image is a naked girl.  What did you think?

Oh,OK, I'm glad you set me straight on that  :-)  I assume the background
image also has proper police-approved mosaic applied to it :-)  


Jonathan Byrne
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