At 09:05 2002-02-21 -0500, Kevin Meltzer wrote:
[...]
Say you have System X, possibly a CGI application of some sort,
which works fine when used by someone who only reads English
and lives in the US. Now, you have to make System X work
seamlessly for someone who, say, lives in Japan and wants
to use the system in their language, using their encodings,
their date formats, their sorting rules, etc... [...]
....or who speaks Japanese, but isn't /in/ Japan. God forbid.
I've dealt with more than one interface that said "you're in the US! So
you MUST want all content in English, a QWERTY keyboard, and m/d/y dates!",
and left no way to adjust those assumptions.
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Sean M. Burke sburke(_at_)cpan(_dot_)org http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/
