Re: tlug: kanji or romaji for Japanese? (was: parallel-port IDE)

[Karl-Max Wagner <karlmax@example.com>]

> And finally, there's that choice thing: if you don't want to use/view kanji on
> your computer, don't.   You're free to only visit web sites that use the
> Latin-1 character set (and maybe we ought to do away with parts of it in order

That's what I do mainly. In the Internet the decision has
already been taken: English rules. Whoever THINKS of setting up
a website these days in another language than English ( apart
from some cases with strictly local content that's not
interesting to anybody outside a certain area ) ? Pretty much
nobody. If you're after scientific / technical stuff like me,
you're mostly be visiting sites in Europe / US / Australia / New
Zealand. I haven't found much anywhere in Asia ( except some in
Korea - but they were English ). I have several hundred
bookmarks, but only three or four from Japan - and these are
only of marginal interest, to say the least. None of them is
technical.

I just have to look at the companies in Germany. Most of the
bigger ones are multinational and their internal reports are
done in English. German is on its way out. Maybe we'll trash it
one day completely ? Who knows. I for one wouldn't oppose
that....

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