On Oct 16, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote: > > > Khaled Hosny wrote: > >> "Once again people fell into the trap of believing the rules their >> language is using are universal." >> -- Some wise person writing GNU gettext manual[1] >> >> [1] >> http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_mono/gettext.html#Plural-forms > > Well, to be fair to Herb, he /was/ referring to SI > ("Systeme Internationale") which (of course) his own > country has not adopted, along with Burma and Liberia ! > > ** Phil.
Howdy, Maybe not the country but certainly the Physicists have. :-) There were plans but too many people with power were too afraid of backlash. They tried, without success, to use both systems on highways and, of course, that didn't work. I still believe people are quick adapters so just change everything overnight and folks will adapt in short order. Finally, this country seems to have a paranoia about ``internationalizing'' anything. :-( Good Luck, Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
