From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Subject: Re: Wasteful internationalization
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:15:40 -0500
Date: 2007-01-27T12:15:40-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u3b5wo0g3.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: HvWdndC6dOHouiTYnZ2dnUVZ_segnZ2d@megapath.net
"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com> wrote in message
> news:51rhs3F1m1jliU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Randy Brukardt wrote:
> ...
>> It's difficult not to agree with the compiler example. Compiler errors are
>> certainly bothersome for me in Spanish, but because they're badly
>> translated and they difficult searches in google. An even worse example is
>> Excel, whose formulae are translated in Spanish versions! So you have
>> both "IF(;;)" and "SI(;;)" and so on, and both are accepted by the formula
>> engine. This is just mental.
>
> This gave me a vision of a fully internationalized Ada program written in
> Cyrillic (or Chinese or Thai or ...). Just a mass of funny looking
> characters. Just imagine the portability!
I must object to the characterization of non-English characters as
"funny".
To people who grew up with Chinese as their native tongue, this entire
thread is just a stream of "funny characters", and a compiler that
worked with Chinese as nicely as GNAT does with English would be a
very productive tool.
While I believe it is true that English is spoken by more people than
any other language (if we count people for whom English is a second
language), there are still billions of people who do not speak
English. We should not dismiss them so lightly.
--
-- Stephe
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2007-01-15 13:44 Structured exception information Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-15 17:17 ` claude.simon
2007-01-16 9:04 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-16 22:39 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-15 17:28 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-15 18:29 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-15 19:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-15 20:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-15 21:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-15 22:32 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-16 18:36 ` Ray Blaak
2007-01-16 19:18 ` C# versus Ada (was: Structured exception information) Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-16 23:29 ` C# versus Ada Markus E Leypold
2007-01-18 10:22 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-17 18:14 ` C# versus Ada (was: Structured exception information) Ray Blaak
2007-01-16 23:27 ` Structured exception information Markus E Leypold
2007-01-17 7:28 ` Martin Krischik
2007-01-16 22:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-17 16:12 ` Bob Spooner
2007-01-17 23:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-16 9:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-16 10:45 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-16 13:26 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-16 14:44 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-16 15:15 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-16 17:50 ` Jeffrey Carter
2007-01-16 18:31 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-16 22:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-17 8:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-17 18:38 ` Jeffrey Carter
2007-01-17 23:18 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-17 23:46 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-18 6:34 ` Jeffrey Carter
2007-01-19 7:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-19 13:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-19 18:57 ` Jeffrey Carter
2007-01-19 19:57 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-20 20:59 ` Jeffrey Carter
2007-01-18 9:55 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-18 18:28 ` Jeffrey Carter
2007-01-17 23:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-18 10:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-15 22:19 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-16 13:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-15 22:42 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-01-15 23:22 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-16 6:03 ` tmoran
2007-01-16 13:30 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-16 14:33 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-16 14:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-16 17:54 ` Jeffrey Carter
2007-01-16 22:55 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-17 12:10 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-17 14:05 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-19 9:47 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-19 11:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-20 15:04 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-21 10:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-23 7:28 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-23 14:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-25 2:39 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-19 13:36 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-20 15:33 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-20 16:33 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-21 22:42 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-21 23:45 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-22 9:14 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-23 7:33 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-23 15:07 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-23 15:54 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-23 17:10 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-23 23:59 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-22 9:28 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-23 9:46 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-23 14:18 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-25 2:32 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-25 8:53 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-01-26 9:35 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-26 11:16 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-01-26 13:46 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-27 18:17 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-28 12:38 ` Simon Wright
2007-01-28 12:39 ` Simon Wright
2007-01-28 13:18 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-28 15:44 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-28 21:48 ` Ray Blaak
2007-01-28 18:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-30 2:15 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-31 18:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-01 12:20 ` Stephen Leake
2007-02-01 14:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-25 21:52 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-24 0:10 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-24 14:17 ` Wasteful internationalization (Was: Structured exception information) Alex R. Mosteo
2007-01-24 14:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-24 23:48 ` Wasteful internationalization Björn Persson
2007-01-25 9:45 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-01-24 21:03 ` Wasteful internationalization (Was: Structured exception information) Randy Brukardt
2007-01-25 11:17 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-01-25 21:37 ` Wasteful internationalization Björn Persson
2007-01-25 21:57 ` Wasteful internationalization (Was: Structured exception information) Randy Brukardt
2007-01-26 9:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-26 12:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-27 4:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-27 17:15 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2007-01-27 20:44 ` Wasteful internationalization Markus E Leypold
2007-01-28 0:09 ` Björn Persson
2007-01-28 1:08 ` Björn Persson
2007-01-28 15:21 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-01-29 1:23 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-01-29 19:02 ` Björn Persson
2007-01-29 20:19 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-02-01 6:23 ` Simon Wright
2007-02-03 0:48 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-03 1:04 ` Adam Beneschan
2007-02-03 11:52 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-02-03 2:36 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-03 2:37 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-03 19:59 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-03 20:16 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-05 19:26 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-04 4:51 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2007-02-05 19:27 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-06 1:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-02-06 1:54 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-07 1:55 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-07 2:20 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-12 1:33 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-12 8:16 ` Franz Kruse
2007-02-12 9:20 ` Not at all wasteful internationalization Martin Krischik
2007-02-12 11:08 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-02-12 13:02 ` Martin Krischik
2007-02-07 20:39 ` Wasteful internationalization Randy Brukardt
2007-02-08 13:33 ` Stephen Leake
2007-02-12 2:42 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-06 11:01 ` Peter Hermann
2007-02-06 19:02 ` OT: Flash (was: Re: Wasteful internationalization) Jeffrey R. Carter
2007-02-06 19:40 ` OT: Flash Markus E Leypold
2007-02-03 11:51 ` Wasteful internationalization Larry Kilgallen
2007-01-29 18:54 ` Björn Persson
2007-01-29 19:03 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-01-30 17:46 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-30 19:37 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-01-30 20:43 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-30 20:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2007-01-30 21:54 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-01-31 11:26 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-01-31 15:17 ` Markus E Leypold
2007-02-03 0:49 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-03 16:05 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-02-03 0:48 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-01 12:08 ` Stephen Leake
2007-02-03 0:49 ` Björn Persson
2007-02-03 9:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-02-03 18:48 ` Stephen Leake
2007-02-03 20:27 ` Björn Persson
2007-01-30 2:20 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-30 10:01 ` Wasteful internationalization (Was: Structured exception information) Harald Korneliussen
2007-01-19 15:45 ` Structured exception information Robert A Duff
2007-01-20 16:08 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-20 21:59 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-19 18:14 ` Ray Blaak
2007-01-19 20:07 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-20 16:16 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-20 21:20 ` Ray Blaak
2007-01-21 22:34 ` Stephen Leake
2007-01-20 22:07 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-21 10:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-21 23:51 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-22 14:39 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-22 19:02 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-23 14:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-01-29 1:30 ` Brian May
2007-01-16 13:30 ` Structured exception information (task, ANEX E) Martin Krischik
2007-01-16 23:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2007-01-19 16:01 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-22 7:17 ` Martin Krischik
2007-01-22 19:40 ` Robert A Duff
2007-01-16 15:48 ` Structured exception information Alex R. Mosteo
2007-01-16 18:07 ` Jeffrey Carter
2007-01-17 6:38 ` Duncan Sands
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