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From: Allan Wegan <allanwegan@allanwegan.de>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] error messages in multiple languages ?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 01:04:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <041c1cd1-b697-9889-55e6-2db7f611dc6b@allanwegan.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0a2f848f-c697-b267-e371-d53ae281aec2@crans.org>


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> careful here, the “(hindu‐)arabic digits” used in European languages
> (0123456789) are similar, but not identical to, the symbols that actual
> arabic languages use nowadays (“eastern arabic digits”,
> ٠‎١‎٢‎٣‎٤‎٥‎٦‎٧‎٨‎٩). there even are false friends (e·g· the eastern 4
> looks like a reversed western 3, the eastern 5 looks like a western 0,
> the eastern 6 looks like a western 7).
> 
> yeah. confusing.

Ideed. Must have been wishfull thinking on my side.

Not translating the thing at all may be the wiser option. It might serve
the greater goal of finally establishing one universal world script and
language, everyone has to learn to be able to participate in the global
tech community (and written English is at least somewhat easy to learn)...



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  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-11 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-08 14:22 Tao Stein
2017-04-08 14:43 ` Gabriel Scherer
2017-04-08 15:03   ` Sébastien Hinderer
2017-04-08 16:38 ` Xavier Leroy
2017-04-08 16:51   ` Sébastien Hinderer
2017-04-08 16:56     ` Xavier Leroy
2017-04-09 19:50       ` Adrien Nader
2017-04-10  6:14         ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-04-10 13:20           ` Tao Stein
2017-04-10 13:45             ` Evgeny Roubinchtein
2017-04-10 14:04               ` Tao Stein
2017-04-10 18:07                 ` Adrien Nader
2017-04-10 19:45                   ` Hendrik Boom
2017-04-10 19:49                     ` Dušan Kolář
2017-04-11  0:38                       ` Tao Stein
2017-04-11 14:05 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2017-04-11 14:18   ` Gabriel Scherer
2017-04-11 14:59     ` Tao Stein
2017-04-11 17:17       ` Allan Wegan
2017-04-11 19:07         ` Glen Mével
2017-04-11 23:04           ` Allan Wegan [this message]
2017-04-12  0:12             ` Tao Stein
2017-04-16 22:37               ` Evgeny Roubinchtein
2017-04-09 17:15 Андрей Бергман

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