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Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: Convincing executives of character code perils
À 12:47 2000-10-24 -0800, Suzanne Topping a écrit:
>Again, if you are only
>talking about French, German, and Spanish, character set
>is a non-issue.
[Nynva]
À 12:47 2000-10-24 -0800, Suzanne Topping a écrit:
Again, if you are only
talking about French, German, and Spanish, character set
is a non-issue.
[Nynva] Not much more than the following (although it is in fact
worse than this, much worse):
Ntnva, vs lbh ner bayl
gnyxvat nobhg Serapu, Trezna
well, most of the post is opinion but I agree with a lot of it so that's
okay. :-)
> This came with Win 95. Unfortunately MS was competing with IBM's
> OS/2 at the time and wanted good performance on a 4MB system. While they
> use Unicode internally they dropped Unicode support from the user AP
J.P.
X.Net, Inc. is a Globalization consulting company. We often get involved
with a companies second attempt. It seems so easy just to localize your
product and you are ready for the world market. This is an area where
people have no experience and it seems like they have to get burned to
lea
Did you express your concerns about introducing
additional architectures into your configuration, when you went from
single platform to multi-platform?
Weren't the execs concerned about
interoperation between systems with such different code pages
as EBCDIC and ASCII?
Did those ready-aim-fire
Did you express your concerns about introducing
additional architectures into your configuration, when you went from
single platform to multi-platform?
Weren't the execs concerned about
interoperation between systems with such different code pages
as EBCDIC and ASCII?
Did those ready-aim-fire
- Original Message -
From: "J. P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Articulating and expressing concerns to company
> executives about the perils associated with managing
> multiple character sets is DAUNTING task. The company
> would like to move ahead regardless, which tells me we
> haven't don
"J. P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How have you sold your EXECUTIVES on the perils of
> this READY-FIRE-AIM mentality?
It sounds strange that executive management a) would be interested in this
level of detail and b) would make such a decision without expert input.
The simple answer is cost:
Well, my executives are mostly Italians or Dutchmen, so they are quite used
to the perils of their own languages.
Ouch! I have just bitten my tongue in the attempt of pronouncing a very
dangerous Italian phoneme! I need medical assistance, fast!
_ Ma?co
> -Original Message-
> From: J. P
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