- From: Rick Troth <troth@rice.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 16:16:13 -0600 (CST)
- To: "Daniel R. Kegel" <dank@alumni.cco.caltech.edu>
- Cc: ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM, insoft-l@cis.vutbr.cz, ISO10646@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu, troth@rice.edu
> The vote for comp.software.non-latin.east-asian was very close. > I bet many people voted NO because it had a narrow charter and awkward name. > > I propose instead the new group comp.software.internat. I hope you're not swinging too far in the other direction. That is, I hope you're not creating a newsgroup with too BROAD a charter. FWIW, this is an important track. CMS acquired an XMITMSG command several releases back. At first I wasn't too excited about it, but I've become kinda fond of it. Gopher supports multiple national languages using CMS XMITMSG. I've hacked-together an 'xmitmsg' command for UNIX which reads similar message repository sources to those found on CMS. Most recently I've used it to handle perror() conditions. Beautiful! You can replace the errno.msgs file with a MR source of whatever local language you might need. In the long run, there's more to internationalisation than just message text. So maybe you're NOT going for too broad of a charter. Messages seem like a great next step after charsets. > - Dan Kegel (dank@alumni.caltech.edu) -- Rick Troth <troth@rice.edu>, Rice University, Information Systems --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
Received on Sunday, 13 February 1994 15:15:11 UTC