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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,437e9fdc6e4f0fdd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-09 12:24:34 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!sea-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Hebrew In-Reply-To: <87lmp9nclp.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> Message-ID: References: <9ap1rl$9ic1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <87vgofy9du.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3AD1C608.FCBC9B54@mitre.org> <87lmp9nclp.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 19:23:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.139.136 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: sea-read.news.verio.net 986844231 206.184.139.136 (Mon, 09 Apr 2001 19:23:51 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 19:23:51 GMT Organization: Verio Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:6673 Date: 2001-04-09T19:23:51+00:00 List-Id: On 9 Apr 2001, Florian Weimer wrote: > Mike Brenner writes: > > > BTW this is important for quite a few languages, not just > > Hebrew. It is fundamental for Arabic, Biblical Hebrew, > > Farsi, Ancient Greek, etc., per se. > > I believe that some languages (very Ancient Greek) use both writing > directions alternatively. There isn't much software which supports > that, if any at all. Word for the day: "boustrophedon". > > Various 16-bit codes have advantages for Asian > > languages, eCommerce encodings, multi-language web sites. > > There are many, manu national standards, and I think that's a problem. > For a developer who is interested in internationalizing his software, > it's very difficult to obtain all the necessary documentation. > Implementing Unicode is probably much easier. > > > The question is, is it important for English speaking people to make > > codings, software, web sites, advertisements, etc., that work well > > for people of many different languages? > > Well, my native language is German, so my answer is yes, definitely. My native language is American English, and I agree with you. However, I suspect that for the kinds of SW I work on, mostly engineering SW, the answer today is no. Still, a general purpose language should provide the tools to implement internationalized software. -- Brian