RE: Term Asian is not used properly on Computers and NET

[Thomas Chan]

On Tue, 29 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On 05/29/2001 02:37:55 PM Thomas Chan wrote:
> >I think what one wants is something like "languages usually and currently
> >possibly including Han characters in their written form".  That frees us
> >from worrying about historical or aberrant cases, I think.
> 
> Folks, this discussion was about how to label a control in a dialog box, as
> in the attached image. You can't use a label like that.

It may have begun with that (Word XP font dialog box), which was just one
of the original poster's (Liwal) examples--he also mentioned websurfing in
general--but I think the discussion has expanded beyond that into a
discussion of the meanings and implications of various other terms.

I don't disagree that a label has to be concise.


Thomas Chan
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