On Sunday 30 March 2003 03:19 pm, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > Hi, > > From: Pablo Saratxaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: supporting XIM > Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 17:13:02 +0100 > > > > However, I am often annoyed by people who think supporting > > > European languages is more important than supporting Asian > > > languages > > > > Are there such people? > > I think there are no people who explicitly think so. However, > how do you think if a developer think, for example, italic > character support for 8bit characters is very important while > he/she don't won't understand importance of multibyte support?
That's not racism, that's bean-counting. I am equally annoyed with Adobe, for example, for providing Japanese support in FrameMaker but not building in Unicode, and not offering it on a Linux platform. (There was a Linux Beta of FrameMaker a while back, and the company decided that there wasn't enough interest. [!?!]) -- Edward Cherlin Generalist & activist--Linux, languages, literacy and more "A knot! Oh, do let me help to undo it!" --Alice in Wonderland -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
