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

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> 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

xemacs-mule does this now, without 4-byte.  explain that, if you dare.

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