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- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- To: rev-bob@gotc.com, xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 08:53:31 -0800
At 03:33 AM 11/28/99 -0500, rev-bob@gotc.com wrote:
>> >I have a hard time visualizing radical internationalization on a tiny
>> >screen. Anglo-
>> >centric characters, I get. Asian scripts and Cyrillic...well, those seem
>> >a bit out of
>> >range. Again, am I missing something?
>>
>> Yes. Approximately 75% of the world's population. -Tim
>
>No, I meant "Am I missing something about the available screens, so that
>these visually
>complex glyphs are actually easier to display on them than I currently
>believe?"
In Japan, lots of people use pocket-size electronic organizers, and
these things seem to have no trouble displaying kanji.
The Rev has a point though: the difficulty of rendering text properly,
particularly in an internationalized environment, substantially exceeds
the difficulty of parsing XML. Like, by orders of magnitude. Draw your
own conclusions. -Tim
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