In message <200007141057.CAA26564@unicode.org>
Marco.Cimarosti@icl.com wrote:
>
> Horror! Abomination! Heresy! ;-)
>
> I don't care for mididisc players but, hey, software for *shop tills* needs
> full-fledged i18n. And the Japanese version must support all the kanjis
> that might be needed in the description of articles, discounts, forms of
> payment, etc., and in the names and addresses of shops and customers.
>
> Ciao.
> Marco Cimarosti (ICL-Fujitsu, *Retail* Systems division)
Obviously one of your competitor's products I saw then :) Seriously though,
you're right - a modern till is often a DOS box or something with a full CRT,
so can be expected to handle kanji. 5 or 10 years ago it would have been
a different question.
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