Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 12:56:45 +0100 From: nik@iii.co.uk To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@itojun.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: internationalization Message-ID: <19980612125645.26761@iii.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199806120309.UAA11238@usr09.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 03:09:02AM %2B0000 References: <646.897615430@coconut.itojun.org> <199806120309.UAA11238@usr09.primenet.com>
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On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 03:09:02AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > The origins of Kanji as an ideogrammatic writing system owe more to > the need for Imperial China to control the availability of persistent > information available to Chinese Serfs in support of a feudal society > than they do to their information density compared to alphabetic > writing systems. I have absolutely nothing to add to the discussion, I just want to hold up the above paragraph as a shining example of why I like these mailing lists so much :-) N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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