Craig Niederberger <craign...@gmail.com> wrote: > So if you could get disabling language support in > configuration to work, that would probably help others.
I second that request! Whenever I have to build any GNU software that uses those darned configure scripts, I always specify --disable-nls for ideological reasons: NLS/i18n is one of the most evil and heinous things invented in all of computing. English is the international language of Computer Science, and every computer user should be required to think in English only whenever one is operating Computing Machinery of any kind. And I'm saying this as a non-American (from the opposite side of the Berlin wall in fact) whose native language isn't English! And yes, I maintained exactly the same attitude when I lived in my home country: I used to go around saying that my native language and computers should not mix. Of course that goes hand-in-hand with my general attitude that computers should not be for mere mortals in the first place. I so wish that it was illegal for anyone to even *touch* a computer or any device containing a processor of any kind unless that person is capable of booting it up by entering the very first machine instructions from a blinkenlights-and-toggleswitches console... If computers were restricted to the select few, there would be absolutely no problem with requiring their users to learn English as part of learning Computer Science and to think in English when operating those marvelous magical devices that are beyond the reach of mere mortals. MS _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user