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Subject: Re: Wasteful internationalization
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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:15:40 -0500
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"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.

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-- Stephe