On 2005-01-28T20:03:22-0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Arabic-Software.html?oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=> The New York Times January 27, 2005 Scientists Work on Software to Scan Arabic By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
``The whole Internet is skewed toward people who speak English,'' said Venu Govindaraju, director of the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors at the University at Buffalo, where the software is being developed.
Someone give that man a brain, and a cookie. I don't live near NY. The internet has nothing to do with scanning written/printed arabic texts. He obviously intended to squeeze a complaint about the internet into an article about scanning printed/written documents. The reason the internet is "skewed" is because these idiots want others to "fix" the internet to accommodate their languages. As a result, much of the non-western-language support in software is done by westerners, and so doesn't work. -- "War is the father and king of all, and some he shows as gods, others as men; some he makes slaves, others free." --Heraclitus (Kahn.83/D-K.53)