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

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Scott Stone wrote:

> no, no, we want to SIMPLIFY the human - machine interface, not make it
> more complex.  a 4-byte system would definitely be a step in the wrong
> direction, IMHO.

But that would simplify the human-machine interface (note that the
human-machine interface is not the same as the programming interface).  A
four-byte language scheme would let people display as many
different languages simultaneously as they wished.  All they would need is
the appropriate fonts.   That would be a simplification over today's mess, I
think.

Jonathan

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