Re: Python, Dutch, English, Chinese, Japanese, etc.

Steve Howell <showell30@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
about Japan:
major linguistic influences: Chinese, English,
Dutch

English and Dutch are minor linguistic influences.

kanji = Chinese characters
hiragana and katakana -- syllabic scripts
Latin alphabet often used in modern Japanese (see
wikipedia)

The Latin alphabet is generally only used for western or westernized
names, like Sony.

Asia:

Python should be *completely* internationalized for
Mandarin, Japanese, and possibly Hindi and Korean.
Not just identifiers. I'm talking the entire
language, keywords and all.

This would be more convincing if it came from someone who spoke Mandarin,
Japanese, Hindi or Korean.

btw. Mandarin is a spoken dialect Chinese, what you're actually asking
for is a Simplified-Chinese version of Python.

Ross Ridge

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