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On 02/02/12 09:18, Michael Kay wrote: [me] >> A lot of this stuff was still relatively new, and only a few people >> were thinking of non-European or non-Latin-alphabet languages. > > I don't think that's true. Vast numbers of people were thinking about > them, but they weren't in California, and no-one in California took any > notice. You're right -- I phrased that badly. Only a few people _who were directly involved at the time_. I can only speak to the areas I was involved in (HTML and XML) but the i18n push certainly appeared to be coming from a minority. I am told it was similar in other fields. > Before the internet, the level of ignorance in the US about > anything happening outside the US was staggering. Still is, in places. As is the level of ignorance our side of the pond about things like the upcoming US presidential election :-) ///Peter
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