Re: Localizable sentences (from Re: Plain text (from Re: Avoidance variants))

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On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 9:51 AM, William_J_G Overington <
wjgo_10009_at_btinternet.com> wrote:

> Doug Ewell wrote as follows.
>
>
> > It's the same as one of the concerns I have with encoding localizable
> sentences as characters.
> There aren't 20 or 50 or 100 sentences that people might want localized,
> but crores of them.
>
>
> Well, that seems like an example of a status point moving along a path
> upon the surface of a cusp catastrophe manifold in a mathematical model of
> decision making produced as an application of catastrophe theory.
>
>
> One instant there is a desire by people for zero of them to be encoded,
> then the next instant there is the desire by people for crores of them to
> be encoded.
>
>
> Please read the following post, where the quoted sentence is one
> originally from Doug.
>
>
> http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m01/0103.html
>
>
> Yes, implementing localizable sentences technology may well be modelled by
> catastrophe theory. Whatever was said then and whatever is said now, there
> may be a sudden change in what people want and localizable sentences
> technology would become implemented quite quickly.
>
>
> I cannot implement it on my own, and maybe if implementation takes place I
> would play little or indeed no part in implementing it, yet maybe one day
> it will become implemented.
>
>
> I am hoping that it will be implemented in time for the 2020 Olympiad,
> including the Cultural Olympiad.
>
>
> William Overington
>
>
> 28 March 2015
>
>
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