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From: robert@pvab.UUCP (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Programming and international character sets.
Message-ID: <337@pvab.UUCP>
Date: 1 Nov 88 09:02:46 GMT
References: <532@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <8804@smoke.BRL.MIL>
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In article <8804@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:

> In article <532@krafla.rhi.hi.is> kjartan@rhi.hi.is (Kjartan R. Gudmundsson) writes:

> >How difficult is it convert american/english programs so that they can 
> >be used to handle foreign text? [etc.]

> Where have you been the last few years?  This subject area is known as
> "internationalization" and has been the featured topic of special issues
> of several journals, including UNIX Review and UNIX/World.

The fact is, internationalization hasn't showed up in any product I know
of (except for HP's NLS, but few uses it). People are still just *talking*
about internationalization, but not *doing* it.
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