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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:17:54 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] localization
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> 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