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From: jal@oliveb.UUCP (Tony Landells)
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Subject: Re: Computers and human languages (was Re: What is a byte)
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Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 07:14:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 19 07:14:24 1987
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In article <8708171253.AA21033@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>, lamy@ai.toronto.edu (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes:
> 
> I find it somewhat ironic that the recently version of "ngrep" moves toward
> internationalization by trying to accomodate Japanese.  I am quite confident
> that we will see a Japanese version of Unix before a French or a German one.
> 
I'm afraid I must beg to differ - AT&T currently have an internationalized
UNIX in beta-test (or, at least, the applications environment is in beta-
test - I assume it would make a completely nationalized system possible) with
French and German as the two possibilities currently available in Europe.  Of
course, you do need the hardware to support it (e.g. European ISO 8859/1 8-bit
graphical character set conforment).

I'm not sure how well it works yet, as it only arrived last week, and we're
currently in the process of installing it, but it does exist...

Tony Landells.
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