i18n@... wrote:

>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> >
> > Since people use computers to balance their checkbook, why don't you
> > hold these discussions on an accountants' list?
>
> Accountants probably *do* discuss ways to balance checkbooks on some of
> their lists.
>
> Having been responsible in the past for the internationalization and
> localization of Intuit's Quickbooks into Japanese, I can tell you that
> there were an awful lot of issues related to writing systems among those
> that needed to be addressed when porting this most popular small
> business checkbook managing software.
>
> Probably don't need to go into the details here, for they are generally
> related to the standard i18n/l10n issues, but they also went beyond that
> into ways of writing currency symbols and amounts, layout preferences
> and requirements for reports, indexing methods, and others. All matters
> with a thorough understanding of underlying writing systems at the core.

Did you skip the first day of Logic 101?

"If P, then Q" does not imply "If Q, then P."

I.e., "Computerization doesn't belong on a Writing Systems list" doesn't
imply "Writing Systems doesn't belong on a Computerization list."
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...