Kaixo! On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 12:37:49AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote:
> However, I am often annoyed by people who think supporting European > languages is more important than supporting Asian languages Are there such people? Note also that, currently, I do'nt agree with you that i18n of programs is low; to the contrary, the majority of programs have good to very good i18n support. Those that still doesn't have are of two kinds: - small programs/projects, not very used, and not i18n mainly by ignorance of the problem by the authors, but that is a thign that can be solved. - old programs/projects, in some cases stalled, abandonned or orphaned for years; there is no much hope to achiueve i18n for them, but there is no much hope about their survival either. > How should I call such people? I know they are never "racists" in its > original meaning. "ethno-centrist" is the word you are looking for I suppose. > Note that even if they are not "racists", the result (that there are > few internationalized softwares) I don't understand how you can say there are few i18n programs; on my current GNU/Linux system it's the opposite: the non-i18n programs are the minority. Tell me about one single current major program/project that doesn't have i18n support (maybe there are, and I'm just not aware of it (probably because a modern software without i18n support is not worth it in my eyes). -- Ki �a vos v�ye b�n, Pablo Saratxaga http://chanae.walon.org/pablo/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0xD9B85466 [you can write me in Walloon, Spanish, French, English, Italian or Portuguese]
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