What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?

[Paul Hudson]

In article <20037 at adm.BRL.MIL>, dsill at relay.nswc.navy.mil writes:
> >From: Peter da Silva <peter at ficc.uu.net>
> >... Any sort of fancy new command option scheme [will never fly in Japan].

> Why not?  And why are we suddenly so concerned about internationalization?

Becuase not all users of a future GNU OS will live in ths US, or use English
as their first language. Stop being so parochial. 

Since we have a chance to remove some of the stupid retrictions in the
existing stuff, let's do so. 8bit characters everywhere. Locale-specific
messages. Why not? Properly done it shold have little impact on what the US
version will be like, so you shouldn't mind.

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