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Dear Paul, In your arc article: http://www.paulgraham.com/arc0.html http://www.paulgraham.com/arc0.html you have the following few sentences: I realize that
by dkural 13y ago
Dear Paul,
In your arc article:
http://www.paulgraham.com/arc0.html http://www.paulgraham.com/arc0.html
you have the following few sentences:
I realize that supporting only Ascii is uninternational to a point that's almost offensive, like calling Beijing Peking, or Roma Rome (hmm, wait a minute). But the kind of people who would be offended by that wouldn't like Arc anyway.
Here's the issue: "the kind of people who would be offended by that" - I realize that "that" refers to ASCII only support, and I agree with your statement. But it took me two minutes to figure that out. Indeed "that" might as well refer to Chinese people being offended by the colonial label of Peking instead of using Beijing. I thought you might want to fix this infelicity of expression.
- enko 13y ago> Chinese people being offended by the colonial label of Peking instead of using Beijing I think the only Chinese people who would be "outraged" by calling their capital Peking (the old southern way of pronouncing it) vs Beijing (the new northern way of pronouncing it) are the same types getting "outraged" over this ridiculous event - they were looking for something to get angry about anyway. For most I believe it is simply a historical name. Do New Yorkers get outraged if you sidle up to them and whisper "New Amsterdam"? Anyway, it's still generally called Peking in plenty of languages, including Spanish, French, German and Japanese, and I don't see any great international incidents over that.
- Uchikoma 13y agoI at least do not get angry about München being called Munich or Köln being called Cologne by occupation forces.