From owner-freebsd-i18n Sat May 6 2:10:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (smtp10.atl.mindspring.net [207.69.200.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C71737B784; Sat, 6 May 2000 02:10:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asami@cs.berkeley.edu) Received: from silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (sji-ca7-07.ix.netcom.com [209.109.235.7]) by smtp10.atl.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA04677; Sat, 6 May 2000 05:10:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.6.9) id CAA83212; Sat, 6 May 2000 02:10:12 -0700 (PDT) To: Martin Cracauer Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG, i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vision References: <20000504102932.8227C37B726@hub.freebsd.org> <20000505114226.V1642@argon.blackdawn.com> <20000505180526.A6360@jedi.wbnet> <20000505121044.Y1642@argon.blackdawn.com> <20000505182053.A6440@jedi.wbnet> <20000505201505.A38121@cons.org> From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) Date: 06 May 2000 02:10:10 -0700 In-Reply-To: Martin Cracauer's message of "Fri, 5 May 2000 20:15:05 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.6 Sender: owner-freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (Yanked over to i18n@FreeBSD.org) * From: Martin Cracauer * As a result, I don't think that FreeBSD should do serious moves into a * multilingual direction. To use any Unix-based system effectivly, you * need to know English, no way around it. I think that localized * systems make things harder in the long term (for users how initially * prefer the localized version, but want to make full use of the system * later). I'm not talking about error messages. The Japanese people don't care much about that either. However, treating multibyte characters as data is a must. Whether commands like sed and grep correctly handle multibyte characters, whether applications compiled and linked just like other OSes can handle multibyte characters (right now there are a whole bunch that require a patch to add "-lxpg4"), those kinds of stuff. I believe the newly imported tcsh already has native multibyte support. This is a good thing. Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message