Re: use of locale in "ls" again (Re: Japanese expression of date)

[Tomohiro KUBOTA]

Hi,

At Thu, 20 Dec 2001 23:57:58 +0000,
Markus Kuhn wrote:

> The nice thing about free software is that you get what you pay for. The
> *only* people who matter as far as user requirements are concerned are
> those who develop and perhaps those who take the time to carefully
> document and justify their personal preferences in bug reports and
> feature suggestions. Philosophical and hypothetical speculations about
> uneducated preferences of absent and silent users won't bring us
> further. Therefore, we should only be interested in what *YOU* need, not
> in what you think that others think that you should think for them.

Completely, no!  It is very likely that in next decade more and more
people from countries whose people don't use computers today will
come to use computers.  Your such idea distressed CJK people in last
decade!  I never want force people who will join OpenSource world
in next decade to suffer similar pain!!!

We had to had a discussion only for German, even though German is
one of European languages which computer softwares can handle very
well.  It is natural that people from much different cultures will
have more different requests.

You may not understand this point because you are blessed you are
living in the central culture in the computer world.

Now you accidently come to know that Japanese people will accept
yyyy-mm-dd because I told that.  THIS IS ACCIDENTAL.  There are
many countries where people are starting Linux for several years
but they don't have enough human resources to join XFree86 or GNU.

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Tomohiro KUBOTA <address@hidden>
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