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Article #334Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
From: Peter Salus
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:06
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:06
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In article <1992Dec31.110735.17551@infodev.cam.ac.uk> ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes: >In article <8490@charon.cwi.nl> dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes: >But 'locale' is not just country; in the locale of names in telephone >directories, 'Mac<uppercase>' sorts with 'Mc<uppercase>', 'St.' is expanded >to 'Saint' etc. Yes, indded. And this leads to such brilliant expansions of [in Boston] St. Botolph St. to Saint Botolph Saint or Street Botolph Saint, etc. Peter -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sun User Group, Inc; Suite 315; 1330 Beacon St.; Brookline, MA 02146 voice +1 617 232-0514 fax +1 617 232-1347
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Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!world!peter From: peter@sug.org (Peter Salus) Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST) Message-ID: <C04py2.8C5@world.std.com> Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages Sender: news@world.std.com (Mr USENET himself) Nntp-Posting-Host: daedalus.sug.org Organization: The Sun User Group References: <1hu9v5INNbp1@rodan.UU.NET> <8490@charon.cwi.nl> <1992Dec31.110735.17551@infodev.cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:06:02 GMT Lines: 17