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From: g2k@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Frederic Giacometti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Non-English support
Summary: taking your head out of California and some deliriums
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Date: 17 Dec 89 23:40:09 GMT
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I am amazed about the reaction of some persons when it comes to claim the basics
foreign characters on the NeXT. How can people be so intolerant, or ignorant
(I know, 60% of American students can't place Beijin or Berlin on a map).
Hey, what would you say if you had to write english whithout h, x, y, w letters ?
Having to replace x by ks, y by ii, w by v ?
I would be glad to talk with you then.
Being European, each time I have to write a report
in my native language, I have to take the old Mac which at least provides the basic
combinations of letters and accents. America is not the world; be sure that
until NeXT implements the accents on its machines, NeXT won't sell a single
machine outside the scientific comunity in the continental EEC.

To conquer the non-scientific users in Europe, NeXT MUST have accents working on
its machines. Until then, Mac will be the preferred choice of these users.

I am not talking about selling NeXTs to hebrew or chinese scholars having their
mind 2000 years ago, but to the technologically most advanced countries on that
planet, which is not reduced to the state of California nor to the english-speaking
world.

So, think about it, from now onwards try to write your reports in english without
using h, x, y, w letters.

Frederic