On 4/27/2011 12:57 AM, Artyom wrote:
So enough is enough. I'm willing to do constructive discussions but I'm not going to listen any more till you'll change the attitude.
I hope I hadn't offended you in any way, but I just can't continue the discussion the way it is.
Best Regards, Artyom
I actually applaud you for being more patient than I would have been given Ryou's persistent hostile tone. Although you may be reaping a bit of karmic hostility you sowed with some of your posts on the boost-build list. ;) Claims like "non-Western programmers will never use this library" are out of place on this list. I am a total novice at localization but there are a whole lot of "non-Western" programmers who know English/ASCII well enough to use it as keys (I speculate the majority do). Indians in particular have considerable English proficiency and there are quite a lot of them. I chatted with a Chinese grad student here and his impression is that China and South Korea probably follow Japan's pattern of having many programmers without English proficiency, so Ryou does have a point but could have made it in a much nicer way. Specifically, as Steve Bush said earlier, the idea of a program localized only for the east Asian markets is plausible. But at the same time I think it's perfectly acceptable for boost.locale to NOT target that particular use case and instead go for (I assume) the much larger use case of programs that are intended for ALL markets. It would be very informative to see statistics about programmers: their primary development language and secondary language proficiencies. This is a hard thing to google because it thinks I'm referring to programming language. :( -Matt