Re:iPhones are hard to use
by vbezhenar on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @05:54AM
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I'd like to use different languages for different applications. I'm using Russian and English languages interchangeably on my phone. Luckily many applications nowadays have separate language setting, but not all. That's not an outlier request. I hate that English-dominating CS monoculture that thinks that everyone is like them. It caused great headache of 8-bit encodings which the rest of the world had to deal with for decades, while US didn't even understand what the problem was about, strlen is just fine!
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Yup. "ASCII is mostly OK if you're USian and only use English, therefore no problem exists."
It was good enough for UNIX... Heck, it was a big deal when early uucp and Internet links were finally 8-bit clean! (Only 7 bits are needed for plain old English ASCII, and when you were paying many thousands of dollars a month for a T1 (1.5Mbps) connection, using 7-bit was an instant 12% bandwidth boost...)
Which is why then you have to come up with tricks like typing c, instead of ç, eh instead of é and so forth.
Then everyone does it a bit differently and there is this pre-parsing phase trying to understand which idiom people have written the text.