Internationalization and the IETF (Re: Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web?)

2000-12-07 Thread Harald Alvestrand
At 15:35 06/12/2000 -0700, Vernon Schryver wrote: The same thinking that says that MIME Version headers make sense in general IETF list mail also says that localized alphabets and glyphs must be used in absolutely all contexts, including those that everyone must use and so would expect to be

Re: Internationalization and the IETF (Re: Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web?)

2000-12-07 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: Harald Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] The same thinking that says that MIME Version headers make sense in general IETF list mail also says that localized alphabets and glyphs must be used in absolutely all contexts, including those that everyone must use and so would expect to be

Re: Internationalization and the IETF (Re: Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web?)

2000-12-07 Thread John Stracke
Keith Moore wrote: Furthermore, a great many people use multiple languages (not necessarily including English) is, so that a given person, host, or subnetwork will often need to exist in multiple (potentially competing) locales at once. Sometimes even in the same sentence. My mother grew

Re: Internationalization and the IETF (Re: Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web?)

2000-12-07 Thread Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 07:23:11 -0500 From: Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] At least the recipient has the unintelligible data well isolated and labeled. MIME did its job. Indeed. If I get a mail message which is in HTML only, 99.97% of the time it's SPAM-mail. And I've lost

Re: Internationalization and the IETF (Re: Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web?)

2000-12-07 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: Henk Langeveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] You know, it isn't that long ago that I realised that for many Americans, "International" is synonymous with "Non-American". That is as true as the observation that many who learn English as a second language think that "international" is synonymous

Re: Internationalization and the IETF (Re: Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web?)

2000-12-07 Thread Matt Crawford
If the world had asked you or me to design an international language, I think either of us would have done better. Don't be too sure. Even today, there are no more speakers of Esperanto than of Mayan.