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From: Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
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Subject: Not at all wasteful internationalization
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:20:24 +0100
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Björn Persson schrieb:

> These bugs are produced by egocentric USian coders who think that the USA is
> the entire world and that the English alphabet is the only one that
> matters. They only test their programs with English sample texts, and as
> all of the most popular encodings are compatible with ASCII they never see
> any bad consequences of ignoring character encodings, so they keep doing
> it. I'm not going to avoid non-ASCII characters just to help ignorant
> coders remain ignorant.

Right, I noticed a decline in I18N support in SuSE Linux right in the 
first release under Novel Management. So I would say: it's not just 
egocentric USian coders but egocentric USian management as well.

Martin

PS: Mind you; the one thing which pissed me of most was the switch from 
A4 to Letter - I would not even know where to buy US-Letter sized paper 
if I wanted to - which I don't.