inline below: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:05 PM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 August 2009, jtd wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 August 2009, Pranesh Prakash wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 20:02, jtd<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Only an idiot will commit a folly of proposing and approving multiple > > > > standards when there exists an opportunity of avoiding it. > > > > > > That assumes that there are costs involved in multiple standards, > > > which is what I'm seeking to question (not necessarily to refute). > > Replying to myself: Replying to community: > > > > Replacing a human with a computer as the decision maker on a multiple > standard > platform gives you > M$ office2007 > Google translate Do you mean Google transliterations? It is basically a substitution engine that simplifies data entry in non-English languages, without having to use special (and either non-existent or very expensive) keyboards. I am not sure why this can be described as entertaining and mostly useless. In fact I have found it both useful and easy to use. And I do have alternatives, right on my own desktop, which I also use, and compare, regularly. Each works, in its own space. I don't even know what this has to do with standards, really. But since the subject has been raised, does anyone on this list know what the equivalent for Unicode is, in the mobile space? As I understand it, in the GSM standard, the coding for text is hardwired to ASCII, so if one wants to communicate in any non-Roman script, then only MMS or other datacomm dependent media will work. Is this correct? And what is the status in CDMA? The reason I ask is, I suggested on another list that the government amend telco licensing to 'force' ('persuade') equipment and service providers to support and encourage the use of multilingual messaging, which is the bugbear of systems designed to provide ready information inexpensively in several sectors, such as agriculture and healthcare, using readymade infrastructure (disclaimer: I personally happen to think it is one of the most humongously expensive - in total cost - solutions, but the reality is someone else has already spent that money). -- Vickram http://communicall.wordpress.com
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