Re: RFD: New Usenet newsgroup comp.software.internat

[Rick Troth <troth@rice.edu>]

> The vote for comp.software.non-latin.east-asian was very close.
> I bet many people voted NO because it had a narrow charter and awkward name.
> 
> I propose instead the new group comp.software.internat.
 
	I hope you're not swinging too far in the other direction. 
That is,  I hope you're not creating a newsgroup with too BROAD a charter. 
 
	FWIW,  this is an important track.   CMS acquired an XMITMSG 
command several releases back.   At first I wasn't too excited about it, 
but I've become kinda fond of it.   Gopher supports multiple national 
languages using CMS XMITMSG. 
 
	I've hacked-together an 'xmitmsg' command for UNIX which reads 
similar message repository sources to those found on CMS.   Most recently 
I've used it to handle perror() conditions.   Beautiful!   You can 
replace the  errno.msgs  file with a MR source of whatever local 
language you might need. 
 
	In the long run,  there's more to internationalisation 
than just message text.   So maybe you're NOT going for too broad 
of a charter.   Messages seem like a great next step after charsets. 
 
> - Dan Kegel (dank@alumni.caltech.edu)
 
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Rick Troth <troth@rice.edu>, Rice University, Information Systems