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
