From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,699cc914522aa7c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news1.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn?= Persson Subject: Re: Wasteful internationalization Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <_wrvh.30646$E02.12547@newsb.telia.net> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-ID: <5yLxh.31237$E02.12875@newsb.telia.net> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:26:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.250.96.174 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1170703617 83.250.96.174 (Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:26:57 CET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:26:57 CET Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8975 Date: 2007-02-05T19:26:57+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu