Re: Wasteful internationalization

["Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>]

Markus E Leypold wrote:

> We're writing english here, you might notice, so I fail to see
> any reason to write umlauts, expect in personal names.

And also in some special cases, like when discussing character encoding bugs
perhaps. (There are far too many of those, even in Ada software.) Or maybe
when mentioning a particular constant that is defined in the standard.

> For this there 
> are transscription. Or would you, if someone from China partcipated
> here, write his/her name in chinese letters every time you address the
> person in the text?

Most of the time I would address them as "you", but if I'd need to write out
the name I'd write it the same way as they had written it. (I'd have to, as
I don't know how to transliterate.) If they'd write it in Pinyin I could
type it. If they'd write it with Chinese characters I'd have to copy and
paste it, but that doesn't take all that much effort.

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