From: Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks>
Subject: Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help
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On 18 Jan 2025 22:53:38 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> 
>> But representing all human languages in digital form is not
>> a trivial undertaking.  First there were many ISO code pages
>> for various language groups.  Then, at the late time of 1991,
>> Unicode was established.
> 
> Yes, and Linus took care of it because he wasn't a native American, when
> Microsoft still doesn't care about it because Bill GATES is a fucking
> limited American considering English is the only language that matters
> and the others can go to hell.
> 

I doubt that Linus Torvalds "took care of it."

Internationalization and localization were started in the 1970s
or 1980s.  I know very little about this (because I find the whole
issue boring) but here is a link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization

Also, Torvalds used the GNU project to complete his OS and GNU
gettext, the i18n library, was first released in the early 1990s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext

> 
> The purpose of the "Hello World!" program isn't to prove you are able to
> program. 
>

No.  It's usually used informally as a joke to insult others.





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