Hi there!
On 17 Oct 99, at 19:35, Thomas Fernandez wrote
about "Re[2]: OT: Laguanges and names, rea":
> I really don't know why everybody thinks all langauges of the world
> should be squeezed into the English alphabet. Look at Vietnamese: it
> looks awful now! And really, even though they use 28 latin letters,
> they still have to mke "special effects" and at the end, you still
> don't know how to pronounce it. How do you pronounce this "o" with the
> little tick-mark? No, every language has the alphabet/character set
> most suitable for it. And why not?
I don't know, why not... But now and then you just fall into all
kinds of problems with non-Latin alphabet... Just remember
how it works with Russian:
for years we had a codetable for Russian ("alternative"), then
IBM comes and changes this a bit and calls it "CP866", then
somebody else comes and modifies it a bit and calls "ISO-8859-
5", then Apple comes and makes a completely new "Russian
Mac" codetable, then there is a "Unix Russian" KOI8-R --- and
M$ comes and invents CP1251 and releases Windows and
makes CP866 Windows OEM (DOS console) codetable and
CP1251 Windows ANSI (GUI applications) codetable...... And
now many people cannot understand each other....
And M$ strikes again and releases Word'97, which *cannot*
read Russian documents saved with Word 6 and *sometimes*
cannot read Russian documents saved with Word'95....
And now we all see clearly that "the light at the end of tunnel" is
very probably the head light of the upcoming train:-)))
SY, Alex
(St.Petersburg, Russia)
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