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A word of background. I know about Unicode. I can distinguish UTF-8 and other encodings. I have a working knowledge of several non-Latin scripts. My system can happily display text with nicely-rendered fonts, even in Arabic. I've given a conference talk about how to get this stuff working in Unix. Today, $boss said "download Skype so we can teleconference". OK, thought I, no problem. Download. Run. It's all in Korean. I don't know any Korean. Hate. As far as I can tell, the damn thing has assumed that the fact I have Korean fonts installed is an obvious indicator that I want to be spoken to in Korean (and not, for example, an indicator that I'd rather see pretty text I can't read than lots of boxes containing Unicode code points). I find it hard to imagine what sort of cluelessness could give rise to this pestilence, this fetid ordure, this pollution of sanity. Hate hate hate. -- Aaron Crane
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