Good point, this is a more precise way of putting it. Being
multilingual only helps if the languages you know are diverse enough.
(My limited Hebrew has sensitized me to these issues far more than my
limited Spanish, for example.)
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 08:24 AM, Claus Färber wrote:
Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb(_at_)guppylake(_dot_)com> schrieb/wrote:
You're certainly right here -- most software developers are
monolingual whether or not they're Americans. It's just that most of
them are Americans, hence my hasty overgeneralization.
The problem ist not monoligualism but monoscriptualism. Even developers
that have heard of other languages don't have an idea about non-Latin
scripts (or even scripts that need other characters than thos from the
Latin-1 repertoire).
A German developer speaking German, English, French, Spanish and
Italian does not know anything about the problems of a Czech user who
needs Latin-2.
Claus
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