Steve Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>about Japan:
> major linguistic influences: Chinese, English,
>Dutch
English and Dutch are minor linguistic influences.
> kanji = Chinese characters
> hiragana and katakana -- syllabic scripts
> Latin alphabet often used in modern Japanese (see
>wikipedia)
The Latin alphabet is generally only used for western or westernized
names, like Sony.
>Asia:
>
> Python should be *completely* internationalized for
>Mandarin, Japanese, and possibly Hindi and Korean.
>Not just identifiers. I'm talking the entire
>language, keywords and all.
This would be more convincing if it came from someone who spoke Mandarin,
Japanese, Hindi or Korean.
btw. Mandarin is a spoken dialect Chinese, what you're actually asking
for is a Simplified-Chinese version of Python.
Ross Ridge
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