On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 01:33:02AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > Another point: I want to purge all non-internationalized softwares. > Today, internationalization (such as Japanese character support) is > regarded as a special "feature". However, I think that non-supporting > of internationalization should be regarded as a bug which is as severe > as "racist software". However, GTK is a relatively heavy toolkit and > developers who want to write a lightweight software won't use it.
Stop using the word "racist". It's like saying "if you don't support a feature I want, you're supporting terrorism"; it makes people groan and stop paying attention. It's inflammatory, doesn't help your case at all, and injures your credibility. Not being racist is free, takes no time, doesn't take any new code, testing, has no support costs and doesn't require people to learn new APIs. If i18n ever becomes implicit, such that supporting i18n is as easy and effortless as not being racist, and not supporting i18n takes a deliberate act by the programmer, then the word "racist" might have some relevance (but it'd still be inflammatory and cause groaning and ignoring). I'm aware that English isn't your native language, but I'm pretty sure you know how strong this comparison is. -- Glenn Maynard -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
