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Article #384Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
From: Erland Sommarskog
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 16:39
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 16:39
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Andrew Hume (andrew@alice.att.com) writes:
>But what about text which has French/German/Italian/English mixed together?
>Or as Erland pointed out, text with a bunch of Scandanavian languages mixed
>together? Being able to have several almost identical but distinguishable
>fonts on the screen at once is a fairly difficult task (although not
>very difficult).
Depends for whom you are talking about, the implementor or the user.
For the user it's not a question on whether it's difficult or not -
it's simply not acceptable.
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Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
Jag gav en k{ck tjeck en check.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!enterpoop.mit.edu!eru.mt.luth.se!lunic!sunic!seunet!enea!sommar From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST) Message-ID: <1993Jan3.163900.28220@enea.se> Date: 3 Jan 93 16:39:00 GMT References: <1i2gpvINN3lm@rodan.UU.NET> <8504@charon.cwi.nl> <24540@alice.att.com> Organization: Enea Data AB Lines: 13