From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 14 13:01:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA10348 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 13:01:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA10327 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 13:01:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id HAA07396; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 07:30:48 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19971215073048.57829@lemis.com> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 07:30:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Terry Lambert , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: blocksize on devfs entries (and related) References: <199712132055.NAA29304@usr06.primenet.com> <8690toqdco.fsf@bitbox.follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <8690toqdco.fsf@bitbox.follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 02:11:03PM +0100 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 02:11:03PM +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > When you think about it, it is fairly seldom an average user need to > display multiple languages in the same document. It's fairly seldom that an average user will need to run more than one program at a time, so what's all this fuss about multitasking operating systems? I often need to display multiple languages at once. In European countries, such as Norway, they may need to display English, Swedish and Norwegian in a single document. Sure, you can represent all of those with ISO 8859-1, but think about the Japanese, who have four alphabets anyway, and the Singaporeans, who have four national languages, each potentially with its own character set. In those countries the requirement is very frequent. Greg