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"If you had to translate everything you read, you would realize how slow and labor intensive the operation is."

Woah woah woah... Everything you read? I think the address bar contains the least of everything we read on the internet. Hell, many people don't even know what the text in the address bar -is-! And they speak English! English letters are either the most supported characters, or one of the most supported characters, of all the keyboards in the world. The only people who are being excluded here are people with non-chinese keyboards who can't directly jump to a website with chinese characters (without doing some fancy trick to generate chinese characters) et cetera for other languages. What's next? Chinese HTML? Chinese C++? Adding support for everyone is taking away from standardization, which is what the web lives on. What's supposed to be letting everyone come together and share the internet is really going to tear it apart.
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huh?  CobraA1 | 11/01/06
You would if  wjkahlssmd@... | 11/01/06
I fully support internationalization.  CobraA1 | 11/01/06
English isn't enough  warlord32@... | 11/02/06
I never said it was easy (nt)  CobraA1 | 11/04/06
I'm not sure I agree with...  unoriginal_sin | 11/01/06
exaggeration  falnar69 | 11/03/06
Huh?  lixo@... | 11/11/06
It should be fairly simple to move to suporting 16 bit character sets, even  DonnieBoy | 11/01/06
Don't you mean double byte?  Confused by religion | 11/01/06
Same thing, different name (nt)  CobraA1 | 11/01/06
Get over it  frgough | 11/01/06
I can just imagine what  djim | 11/01/06
And I can imagine  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/01/06
Charles Atlas  djim | 11/01/06
Yeah!... like Japan... and Germany...  el1jones | 11/01/06
Didn't you read the article?  unoriginal_sin | 11/01/06
Yeah.... but that's not what I'm wondering...  el1jones | 11/02/06
Get over it  antoniovigario@... | 11/01/06
But that's not thier first language  voska | 11/01/06
That hardly helps you  zkiwi | 11/01/06
Hmm, "Team America: World Police" is looking more like a documentary  Scrat | 11/02/06
Next, Air Traffic Control  bmgoodman | 11/01/06
"Air ЋҗڝỘ, you're cleared for runway דּשּׂﺙקδ"  nrozanov | 11/02/06
Dear UN  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/01/06
Wouldn't you rather tell pirates to go to jail?  HypnoToad | 11/01/06
It would be fun if they did...  zkiwi | 11/01/06
Typical post for a coward.  B.O.F.H. | 11/01/06
Hey No_Ax  Scrat | 11/02/06
The article...  techguyjames@... | 11/02/06
Meaningless Rights  ITTech001 | 11/01/06
Join a translation team!  The-Bytemaster | 11/01/06
This has nothing to do with a browsers ....  ShadeTree | 11/01/06
Stupid  ahinkle | 11/01/06
Market Economy  jhame652 | 11/01/06
Just because ENGLISH speaking TAX PAYERS  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/01/06
Uhhh...  markdoc.geo | 11/02/06
Talking of who invented what...  Scrat | 11/02/06
Did Larry invent electricity or telecommunication?  balsover | 11/02/06
english isn't enough  warlord32@... | 11/02/06
Double Uhh...  balsover | 11/02/06
In theory, I agree  John L. Ries | 11/01/06
New Rule!!!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/01/06
Nope  perryroyce@... | 11/01/06
But now phones MUST have  No_Ax_to_Grind | 11/01/06
Corrrect  perryroyce@... | 11/01/06
scanning tunneling microscopes :D? (nt)  CobraA1 | 11/01/06
Rubbish  mikeybrass | 11/01/06
Let's say I need to go to a Chinese website . . .  CobraA1 | 11/01/06
Okay, let's say somebody gives you a Chinese URL..  djim | 11/02/06
Chinese as a second language, and exchange students . . .  CobraA1 | 11/02/06
Pinyin  jhame652 | 11/02/06
hindu, not arabic  paul-1911 | 11/02/06
You totally missed the point of what they were saying  balsover | 11/02/06
English isn't enough  warlord32@... | 11/02/06
It's their fault for using MS software  teddybairs1 | 11/01/06
Microsoft supports more languages then ...  ShadeTree | 11/01/06
Do tell?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 11/01/06
English isn't enough  warlord32@... | 11/02/06
Why is this a big deal?  sbarman | 11/01/06
English isn't enough  warlord32@... | 11/02/06
Waaaaaaaaah. The babies in their sandbox whine again.  HypnoToad | 11/01/06
Clarification  HypnoToad | 11/01/06
heh  CobraA1 | 11/02/06
It's not about ENGKISS, not ENGLISH  luke_sg | 11/01/06
Type in previous post. Please remove the first "not" (NT)  luke_sg | 11/01/06
Make your own internet  DrFred | 11/01/06
But this is exactly the point, they COULD make their own Internet  Scrat | 11/02/06
I am the son of a German immigrant and I am married to a Russian  balsover | 11/02/06
What's the big deal?  voska | 11/01/06
Try typing a chinese URL, and asking a Chinese to type a US URL.  CobraA1 | 11/02/06
Type a Chinese URL  geoff.stephens@... | 11/02/06
The USA created and supports the internet. . .  JonathonDoe | 11/01/06
lets face it.. this world needs one language or a universal translator  Been_Done_Before | 11/01/06
That was already tried once.  Letophoro | 11/02/06
Babel fish  SysTech42 | 11/02/06
When You Invent A Communication Network...  mjk1971 | 11/01/06
I don't see the problem  Patrick Jones | 11/01/06
Good lord  mikeybrass | 11/01/06
What about proper spelling  CSCmustLose | 11/01/06
Then you won't have a problem...  Dave P. | 11/01/06
Invent your own Internet and go your own way  balsover | 11/02/06
English isn't enough  warlord32@... | 11/02/06
Lets all have a group hug.  balsover | 11/01/06
Make it work...  BamaBrad | 11/02/06
Being politically correct is over rated  balsover | 11/02/06
UN  mikek@... | 11/02/06
False Rights  Punchey | 11/02/06
refreshing libertarianism!  ken@... | 11/02/06
Rest assured...  rapson | 11/02/06
why should *I* write it?  ken@... | 11/02/06
English isn't enough  warlord32@... | 11/02/06
OK - here is a fair solution  geoff.stephens@... | 11/02/06
English isn't enough  warlord32@... | 11/02/06
There are several precedents....  curtcalhoun | 11/02/06
Internationalization of the Internet Is a Moot Point  docjackson@... | 11/03/06
"Beam Me Up, Scotty"  30bob1 | 11/03/06
Why are English users are so irritated??!  fred5122@... | 11/03/06
U.N isn't good enough  Boot_Agnostic | 11/08/06

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