Re: Fun With Dates -- Need Help

On 18 Jan 2025 22:53:38 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

 

But representing all human languages in digital form is not
a trivial undertaking.  First there were many ISO code pages
for various language groups.  Then, at the late time of 1991,
Unicode was established.

 
Yes, and Linus took care of it because he wasn't a native American, when
Microsoft still doesn't care about it because Bill GATES is a fucking
limited American considering English is the only language that matters
and the others can go to hell.
 

I doubt that Linus Torvalds "took care of it."

Internationalization and localization were started in the 1970s
or 1980s.  I know very little about this (because I find the whole
issue boring) but here is a link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization

Also, Torvalds used the GNU project to complete his OS and GNU
gettext, the i18n library, was first released in the early 1990s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettext

 
The purpose of the "Hello World!" program isn't to prove you are able to
program.
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No.  It's usually used informally as a joke to insult others.





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