G'day Martin, [Martin Duerst (Re: [I18n]ISO 10646 Fonts and XFontSet question) writes:] >> At 15:00 01/10/01 +1000, Jim Breen wrote: >> >Quite true, and although I twinge to say it, Bill's Road-to-Damascus >> >conversion to Unicode and its subsequent embedding in NT and derivatives >> >has guaranteed its success in what may have been a difficult battle. >> >> Conversion of MSWindows to Unicode was/is slower than desirable, >> but MS was not 'converted' to Unicode (like they were converted >> to the Internet), they were participating from quite early on, >> with the very clear aim of reducing overall costs.
It's true that MS was an early participant in Unicode, but the adoption of it inside products was far from plain sailing. Have you read Nadine Kano's article in the August '98 edition of Multilingual Computing? She tells a very frank story of the problems people trying to push proper internationalization had. E.g. "Our executives didn't appreciate what was involved", said David Brooks, Microsoft's senior director of international product strategy. "Bill Gates himself used to shout that `it's just a linguistic process'." I can fax you a copy. Cheers Jim -- Jim Breen [[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/] Computer Science & Software Engineering, Tel: +61 3 9905 3298 P.O Box 26, Monash University, Fax: +61 3 9905 5146 Clayton VIC 3800, Australia $B%8%`!&%V%j!<%s(B@$B%b%J%7%eBg3X(B _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
