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Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)

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From: Glenn A. Adams
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:53
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In article <2771@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
>Dependence on global state is much worse than variable length encoding.
>You can't even concatinate files.

For once, we strongly agree:  locales are brain damaged as far as
determining character encoding or language of text is concerned.

Glenn Adams
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Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
Date: 22 Jan 1993 01:53:02 GMT
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