From: Kai Grossjohann <grossjohann@charly.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: Franklin Lee <flee@lehman.COM>
Subject: i18n and barking dogs
Date: 31 Dec 1997 01:33:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafzpliic5x.fsf@petty.ls6.uni-do> (raw)
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!
tia,
kai
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Uni Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund http://ls6-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/
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I like both kinds of music.
next reply other threads:[~1997-12-31 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-12-31 0:33 Kai Grossjohann [this message]
1997-12-31 2:21 ` William M. Perry
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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