[Ltru] Re: Language picking

John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org> Wed, 11 October 2006 12:41 UTC

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To: Alberto Escudero Pascual <aep@it46.se>
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Alberto Escudero Pascual scripsit:

> When we worked in the locale generator http://www.it46.se/localegen we
> worked with the best resources that were available in that time. The
> task is/was not easy and as far as i know the tool has served for its
> purpose that is too gather some initial data from languages. We put
> together more locales in two weeks that in years of previous work. 

Indeed.  I did not mean to be critical of this particular project,
and I grant that having the Big List is much better than nothing.
I was just attempting to explore the design space to see if
something else is better yet.

-- 
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that men are nothing but horn-dogs,             http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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