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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:52:49 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] localization
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Llu=C3=ADs Batlle i Rossell <viriketo@gmail.com> writes:

> As for the localisation of software, regarding the implementation to allow
> comfortable localisation without much trade-offs, I can't suggest anythin=
g of
> value now.

I think the Plan 9 solution to l10n ("fix it once, fix it right") would
be to have users (and the system itself) speak Lojban.  ;)

  http://www.lojban.org/

(If you read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, the language used to program
the computer, Loglan, in the ancestor of the Lojban language.)

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