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Subject: Re: State of the new config & build system
To: viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro)
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 23:20:01 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> Frankly, I find it very amusing that advocates of i18n efforts tend to
> be either British or USAnians.  Folks, get real - your languages are
> too close to show where the problems are.  I can see how doing that
> gives you a warm fuzzy feeling, but could you please listen to those
> of us who have to deal with the resulting mess for real?

The biggest advocates I see are from the Middle-East and Japan. We already
have people providing translations for Configure.help in several languages.

Alan
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