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Eldar wrote: > I even don't mention that every teenager in Russia knows > at least three alphabets - Russian, Latin (most commonly referred as > English) and Greek, and usually can read in some Latin-alphabet-based > language. And I believe that's not just Russia. That's what > they call European education there, over the ocean. > And Asian countries also pay a lot of attention to education, > so when it come to development, internationalization efforts > are often taken too seriously for what they worth. > Important thing is internationalization of interfaces and GUIs. > I believe that internationalzation is not that simple. If you only pay attention to interfaces and GUIs, you may get into trouble. A typical example was the Korean pre-release version of Microsoft Windows-9? (I am sorry I forgot the exact version). At that time, the Korean code was not alphabetically well sorted as Korean expects. With some resistance, they changed :-) Another issue is that some languages do not have space between words. Japanese does not have any space among words in a sentence. Korean compound words are even irregular. Either way is right if you have space among constituent words in a compound word or not. I agree that we sometimes take too seriously for these things, but I can say they is someting more than GUIs. Dongwook *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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