From: Edward H. Trager (ehtrager@umich.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 03 2004 - 09:24:46 CST
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:27:48AM -0800, E. Keown wrote:
> Elaine Keown
> Seattle
>
> Hi,
>
> Supposedly this list has >600 people.
>
> Just of curiosity, how many of you are NOT font
> designers?
I am also not a font designer by trade.
>
> And are any of your corpus linguists, text database
> people, or maybe database designers?
I am a bioinformatics programmer and database programmer
in a genetics research lab. My original interest in Unicode stemmed
from the fact that I studied Chinese in school and spent some
years in several countries in Asia, including China and Thailand.
Understanding and applying Unicode (especially UTF-8) and W3C (XHTML,
XML, CSS, ...) standards has most definitely allowed us to
write more powerful and flexible applications in the labs
where I work. I am often surprised when
I meet other programmers --both those fresh out
of school and veterans-- who don't have a clue about Unicode. Unicode
and internationalization should be required courses for kids studying
Computer Science these days ...
I suspect that there is probably a lot of occupational diversity
among the members of this list.
- Ed Trager
Kellogg Eye Center, Ann Arbor
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