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- From: Tony Graham <tgraham@mulberrytech.com>
- To: <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 01:59:35 -0400 (EST)
At 26 Nov 1999 17:20 -0800, Don Park wrote:
> Internationalization is also less of a problem than you
> think. Translating English name to foreign words usually
> results in a weird words. Just ask any foreigner with
> foreign version of Windows if the menu commands made good
> sense to them when they first started using it. The fact
> is that when a person learns how to use computers in non-
> English speaking countries, they have to learn a whole new
> set of words consisting of old or uncommon words overloaded
> with new meanings.
>
> Also, we are going to have a big problem with schema
> differences in the future and I would rather not have
> foreign language variations of common tags like <name> and
> <address> in the pot as well.
Well, it often seems to me that the U.S. is not an English-speaking
country, and compared to English, American spelling shows a lot of
foreign language variations. When we choose the one, true set of
common tags, it's nice to know we'll have <colour>, not <color>.
Regards,
Tony Graham
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