Python, Dutch, English, Chinese, Japanese, etc.

[Ross Ridge]

Steve Howell  <showell30 at yahoo.com> 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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