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<li><em>To</em>: P Jenner <<A HREF="mailto:psj@mustec.eu.org">psj@mustec.eu.org</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: If you are interested</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Gary Lawrence Murphy <<A HREF="mailto:garym@canada.com">garym@canada.com</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: 12 Sep 1999 20:30:30 -0400</li>
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<li><em>Reply-to</em>: Gary Lawrence Murphy <<A HREF="mailto:garym@canada.com">garym@canada.com</A>></li>
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>>>>> "P" == P Jenner <psj@mustec.eu.org> writes:
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P> On 12 Sep 1999, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
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>> Ok, it was a general search, but does it really make sense to
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>> to international searching without asking?
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P> Maybe but many users will be using different languages - to
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P> default to US English is probably a bad thing. I would also
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P> think that most users could ignore translations they do not
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P> require.
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It's up to you of course, but I think it is far less likely that most
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users will speak all European languages. It makes most sense to ask
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for the language(s) of preference up front rather than to litter their
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search with papers the reader cannot read (unless we licence a
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babelfish from AltaVista)
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Based on pure numbers in Internet traffic, having a select box that
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defaults to english (with the option to choose another) is not a bad
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idea, and if you can deduce the most likely language from the
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REMOTE_HOST (trim the end of their host name for the 2-letter country
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code), then by all means have the select box set the first-search
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language to something other than English, but why should we assume the
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average Taiwanese Linux user either knows Italian or doens't mind
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wading through three pages of irrelevant Italian before finding what
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they seek?
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Lumping languages together is like a bad thesaurus: "Solo" is not the
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only case of a technically rare term which is a common word in another
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language. If the documents where somehow semantically linked, say by
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having all non-language technical terms in keyword tags, it would be a
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different story.
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Anyway, it's just my opinion ;) The only real way to tell is to try
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it out on the public and see what they do with it.
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Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@canada.com> TeleDynamics Communications Inc
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Business Telecom Services : Internet Consulting : <A HREF="http://www.teledyn.com">http://www.teledyn.com</A>
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Linux Writers Workshop Archive: <A HREF="http://www.egroups.com/group/linux-hack/">http://www.egroups.com/group/linux-hack/</A>
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