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Hello Thomas!
Friday, September 22, 2000, 7:36:58 AM, you wrote:
DH>> OK, never of use to me, so I consider it personally minor. But
DH>> you are right, don't exclude Asians.
> My dear European friend, two thirds of the world's population is not
> a "minor" issue in any international context whatsoever. European
> languages (except maybe English and Spanish) are "minor", for that matter.
That was exactly what I meant, Thomas. Since I haven't even a remote
clue of any Asian language (well, that's an exaggeration, doesn't
matter), I *personally* never missed support for Asian characters.
BTW, you know that socio-linguistically speaking your "except maybe
..." is also a slight misnomer? Especially english is as a second
language very successful. And it is a universally accepted "standard"
even used by many Asians. There is at least one good reason for this
which I won't explain in detail since everybody can look it up in a
textbook of linguistics (search for books by David Crystal): It is
much more versatile with much less symbols than for instance Chinese.
And no, I don't succumb to avoiding valid arguments or even the truth
just to be PC.
So now, it would be good if *all* programmes supported all characters
of the world - just think of UNICODE.
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Dierk Haasis
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. (Albert Einstein)
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