From: "Terry Reedy" <tjre...@udel.edu> To: <python-list@python.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 8:07 PM Subject: Re: WxPython versus Tkinter.
> On 1/25/2011 7:03 AM, Bob Martin wrote: > >> "I bet not much" - there you go again ;-) >> You'll find that nearly all software used in Europe (and most other parts) >> is internationalized or it wouldn't stand a chance. > > I suspected that is true of today's Europe, but do you have any evidence > that software written in Japan, for instance, is any more > internationalized than US software? I would expect the opposite since > they tend to use, and still use their Japanese-only encodings with their > unique writing system. Yes Terry, you are right. In the cases where the software is targetted only to japanese speakers (but I can't imagine an example) making only japanese applications is OK. But as probably most of the software could be used by those who can't read hiragana/katakana/kanji if it would offer I18N, then it is not OK. Nobody should be blamed for making a bad software. Not the americans, not the japanese and not the europeans (because in Europe there are also a lot of uni-lingual applications). The bad software which is not accessible for some people, (because the language is not accessible or because the interface is not accessible) is usually made because of commercial constraints, or because of time constraints, or simply because of lack of knowledge about these issues. The people should be very well informed, and constantly, and not only on a single thread ona single mailing list and after many years or even generations, the things will change hopefully. The ones that should be blamed are those who know about these inaccessibility problems but simply don't care. Octavian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
