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Re: wchar_t is useless

From James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: wchar_t is useless
Date 2011-11-24 17:15 -0500
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <jamfmf$u83$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <jadmcb$b90$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi> <20111121072256.446@kylheku.com> <4ECA89FB.6020905@verizon.net> <jam86o$925$1@reader1.panix.com> <20111124130734.166@kylheku.com>

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On 11/24/2011 04:16 PM, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> On 2011-11-24, Joe keane <jgk@panix.com> wrote:
>> No one should work on I18N unless they're Finnish, Hungarian, or Japanese.
> 
> It's no longer realistic to write programs that do any text processing, but
> handle only 8 bit text, even if those programs are not actually multilingual.
> 
> (I mean programs for the world to use, not just for use by the author and maybe
> a few of his ISO-latin-character-using colleagues.)

Not even if those "few colleagues" number in the hundreds of millions?
I'm in favor of I18N, but I also work is one of the largest markets in
the world where it's quite feasible to make a decent profit on software
that has support for only one language.
-- 
James Kuyper

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wchar_t is useless Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi> - 2011-11-21 14:14 +0000
  Re: wchar_t is useless Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-21 16:17 +0000
    Re: wchar_t is useless James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-21 12:27 -0500
      Re: wchar_t is useless jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2011-11-24 20:07 +0000
        Re: wchar_t is useless Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-24 21:16 +0000
          Re: wchar_t is useless James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-24 17:15 -0500
        Re: wchar_t is useless Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-11-24 13:49 -0800
          Re: wchar_t is useless Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-11-27 10:33 +0000
        Re: wchar_t is useless Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-11-25 14:17 +0000
          Re: wchar_t is useless Vincenzo Mercuri <vincenzo.mercuri@yahoo.it> - 2011-11-25 15:27 +0100
            Re: wchar_t is useless Vincenzo Mercuri <vincenzo.mercuri@yahoo.it> - 2011-11-25 15:29 +0100
    Re: wchar_t is useless Dann Corbit <dcorbit@connx.com> - 2011-11-22 09:50 -0800
  Re: wchar_t is useless blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-11-21 10:42 -0800
    Re: wchar_t is useless jmclnx@SPAMisBADgmail.com (Jack McCue) - 2011-11-21 19:18 +0000
    Re: wchar_t is useless Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-21 21:02 +0000
      Re: wchar_t is useless Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi> - 2011-11-21 22:07 +0000
        Re: wchar_t is useless Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-21 23:54 +0000
          Re: wchar_t is useless Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi> - 2011-11-22 01:15 +0000
            Re: wchar_t is useless Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-22 01:57 +0000
              Re: wchar_t is useless Lauri Alanko <la@iki.fi> - 2011-11-22 09:28 +0000
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