> better to have every body just learn english as their second (computer usage) language Why not Chinese? It would have many advantages: - Text layout would b

> better to have every body just learn english as their second (computer usage) language Why not Chinese? It would have many advantages: - Text layout would be much easier (Chinese fonts are mostly mono-space). - In addition to the first point, Chinese characters can be easily used for vertical text. Looks much nicer in narrow, tall buttons than latin letters. - Chinese characters are (mostly) pronunciation independent. No they/there/their anymore. - It has been shown that dyslexic children have less problems recognizing Chinese characters than latin letters. - Chinese characters are part of the culture heritage of billions of people (both Chinas, Japan, Korea) and not just something they learn at the university. - Old-school C enthusiasts can now have meaningful variables names while keeping their self-imposed three-character limit (or was it four?) - Finally, everybody will use wchar_t - Edit: But there is one disadvantage. There is no Chinese character for "/s" which some people here seem to need