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- Subject: Re: Setting Deafult Font Size in X
- From: jwb@example.com (Jim Breen)
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:58:23 +0900 (JST)
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>> From: "SN_Diamond" <Norman.Diamond@example.com> >> Jim Breen wrote: >> > I can see the problem though, it's often easier in a big >> > project to generate a set of Japanese patches than to go into battle in >> > a foreign language (i.e. English) and convince the developers to make a >> > heap of changes they will never use and probably can't even test. >> >> That was accomplished with vim 6.0. (Present alpha version 6.0ac, >> considered not ready for beta yet, but nonetheless this has been done. No >> "j" version will be needed as far as I can tell, and I'm sure the Japanese >> participants are making sure of that.) Good to hear. Should be more of it. >> > First we need (a) a revamp of the locale structures and rules so that >> > I18N can really happen, and (b) a change of mind-set on the part of many >> > open-source developers, who still live in a world where software is >> > By_Americans_For_Americans, and I18N means supporting ISO-8859-1 at >> > most. >> >> Is Torvalds-san American already? I know he got a job there by doing >> something for pay instead of for free, but didn't hear about a change of >> citizenship. I did say "many", not "all". Jim -- Jim Breen [jwb@example.com http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/] Visiting Professor, Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan +81 3 5974 3880 [$B%8%`!&%V%j!<%s(B@$BEl5~30Bg(B]
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