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Re: [idn] Comments on protocol drafts
- To: C C Magnus Gustavsson <mag@lysator.liu.se>
- Subject: Re: [idn] Comments on protocol drafts
- From: "A. Vine" <avine@eng.sun.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 13:28:04 -0800
- CC: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 13:29:49 -0800
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C C Magnus Gustavsson wrote:
>
> > For non-European scripts (that is, the majority of the world),
>
> Yes, but know also that the native speakers of European languages are more
> than the speakers of Chinese and roughly three times as many as the native
> speakers of English.
>
Not true. See the Ethnologue:
http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/top100.html
Even with fuzzy numbers, the difference is pretty stark.
--
Andrea Vine, avine@eng.sun.com, iPlanet i18n architect
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging--it is the skin of a
living thought, and may vary greatly in color and content according to the
circumstances and time in which it is used. - Supreme Court Justice Holmes