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Date:      Wed, 16 May 2001 23:06:55 -0300
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        tlambert2@mindspring.com
Cc:        Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: wint_t
Message-ID:  <3B03323F.5C6D6827@newsguy.com>
References:  <20010514164401.A61243@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010515023221.A41666@student.uu.se> <20010514174502.J2009@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010515093610.A1835@iv.nn.kiev.ua> <3B010778.287FAF5E@mindspring.com>

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> Internationalization, in general, is the process of
> taking code, and making it so that it is possible to
> localize it into a particular -- monolingual -- locale.
> 
> You need spacial software to deal with multilingual
> text; the vast majority of software doesn't have to
> do that (about the only place you will see it is in
> a translator-used application).

Funny. I use it on e-mail. Perhaps if you lived in a country that used a
language other than English you would have a different perception of
this issue...

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Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
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