On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:
> One of my crazy ideas is how to solve the internationalization problem.
> Use extended ASCII or some now 8-bit-wided character set, and declare
> English to be the official international language of the platform. Screw
> this Unicode crap.
I agree.
This reminds me of something that Frances Uruqhart (sp?), played by
Iain Richardson, said in "House of Cards." I don't have the exact
quote, but he suggested that what the Europeans need is not a common
currency, but a common language, namely English. :-)
That sounds like what the U.S. needs as well, with all of the idiotic
bizdroids over here bowing down to the speakers of Spanish. Even when
calling the telephone company one has to "press 1 to hear this
recording in English, or [some weird foreign sounding phrase with the
word espanol in it]. Alas, Georgieporgie Dubya amBush isn't going to
help things, as he appears to have the idea of transforming the
U.S.A. into the U.S. of Mexican Jumping Beans (this probably has
something to do with why they have cars modified to jump up and down
on air-shocks in Mexico and California).
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