Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 22:45:50 +0900 From: UEBAYASHI Masao <masao@nf.enveng.titech.ac.jp> To: vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca Cc: itojun@itojun.org, crossd@cs.rpi.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wide char support Message-ID: <19990607224550I.masao@nf.enveng.titech.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 7 Jun 1999 08:30:23 -0400" <19990607083023.C24810@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com> References: <19990607083023.C24810@ppp18415.on.bellglobal.com>
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> > (again, there's language barrier problem... I think we should sort > > it out. I believe the best way is to ban Japanese-language mailing > > list for the project, but other volunteers may have some trouble) Good! I'm totally for HAGINO san! :D (his family name stands later!) > Hmm... A bilingual mailing-list? That would certainly be difficult No. HAGINO san says that all Japanese FreeBSD users _must_ write / speak in English. jp.FreeBSD.ORG have some lists. People talk in Japanese language there. Although these lists consist of Japanese (Japanese speakers) only, contents include a manner of things, very conprehensive, at least to me. Moreover, because many books related to FreeBSD in Japanese language have been published recently, in Japan area, novice users can go on with FreeBSD without r/w English. Some are reluctant to r/w not only source or man pages but also plain English text at all!!! As for non-novice... We (including me) can r/w more easily in Japanese than English. So people tend to use _only_ in-Japanese-language lists and discard English lists. Here is tragedy, oh, such a closed community we are! :-( I think Japanese FreeBSD users from now must not only read more English but also write more English. It would be beneficial for both. I'm wondering many efforts by Japanese directly contibute to FreeBSD community. However I feel regret that I cannot write neat rhetric in English as in Japanese! :-( Thanks for your reading! Masao BTW, I can internationalized my signature. --- ``My economic life -- never in the realms of economics.'' |- -|--|- _|_ /|\/|\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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