From: wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)
Cc: ding@gnus.org, Franklin Lee <flee@lehman.COM>
Subject: Re: i18n and barking dogs
Date: 30 Dec 1997 18:21:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86d8ientgv.fsf@kramer.in.aventail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai Grossjohann's message of "31 Dec 1997 01:33:46 +0100"
Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> Franklin is writing pop3-biff.el and he thinks that the appropriate
> thing to do is to let it bark when new mail arrives. (See the Jargon
> File if you don't think that this is appropriate.)
>
> Of course, barking in English is easy: "woof!" will do fine. But
> nowadays, i18n is called for; German users expect it to "wau!" or
> "wuff!", for instance.
>
> Can you help with other languages?
>
> Oh yes, and surely we do not want to alienate a significant amount of
> our user population, so I think Klingon and Esperanto as well as maybe
> Swahili are very important languages!
Why not just sample a _real dog_ barking? :) But then I guess we'd need
german shepherds, etc.
-Bill P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-12-31 2:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-12-31 0:33 Kai Grossjohann
1997-12-31 2:21 ` William M. Perry [this message]
1997-12-31 7:10 ` Mr. Whipple
1998-01-01 8:36 ` Ken Raeburn
1997-12-31 8:36 ` jari.aalto
1997-12-31 10:57 ` Steinar Bang
1997-12-31 18:13 ` Daniel Neri
1997-12-31 18:26 ` Ben Gertzfield
1998-01-03 16:25 ` Francisco Solsona
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