From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] localization
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:17:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84621c19aca58edbceef258b1ca859b1@ladd.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110427172002.GF1840@vicerveza.homeunix.net>
> Those knowing how to program well are those who can deal with English easily.
> Writing with a latin script without diacritics makes the life easier too. Even
> the whole old story about 'char' holds a character can go just fine.
>
> It's also easier to deal with fixed-width fonts than with many typing fanciness,
> as it is easier to take types as fixed drawings than combine them as in arabic.
both of these problems are quite easy to solve, since they
can be solved once, and are solved problems in plan 9.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-27 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-27 15:59 dexen deVries
2011-04-27 16:14 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-27 17:08 ` Gabriel Diaz
2011-04-27 17:20 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2011-04-27 18:17 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-04-27 20:45 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2011-04-27 20:51 ` dexen deVries
2011-04-27 21:00 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-27 21:52 ` smiley
2011-04-27 18:04 ` tlaronde
2011-04-27 21:29 ` Iruatã Souza
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2005-02-05 12:52 Sergey Reva
2005-02-05 14:51 ` Steve Simon
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