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- From: "Jonathan Byrne--3Web" <jq@example.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:00:12 +0900
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-----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 --------------------------------------------------------------- Next TLUG Meeting: 11 April Sat, Tokyo Station Yaesu gate 12:30 Featuring Tague Griffith of Netscape i18n talking on source code --------------------------------------------------------------- a word from the sponsor: TWICS - Japan's First Public-Access Internet System www.twics.com info@example.com Tel:03-3351-5977 Fax:03-3353-6096
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