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In article <1i2emiINN2td@rodan.UU.NET> avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) writes:
> Don't you realize that having trivial programs to ask which language
> they're doing operation in effectively defeats the entire purpose of
> Unicode?

Luckily, they don't have to.

> Should my shell ask me about language of every [a-z] in my
> commands?

No, what happens if you have a file name in French in the middle of a
directory full of English names? I've got just that situation on my Amiga,
in the preferences files for some programs: Espa~na.lang, Fran,cais.lang.
With UTF I'm sure I'll have Cyrillic, Hebrew, Han, and Czech filenames.

In most cases it doesn't matter. Where it does, it's not a trivial matter
(for example, in Holland you probably want files to sort using the Dutch
 dictionary order... not the Scandinavian one... no matter what language
 the word is actually in).
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