Re: Enable CTL for Default?

Let's first decide about how we handle the default, then we can get into
the mess of PC naming. If we mix the two this might get even more
complicated. Thanks for the input, it's gone in my list :)


Joel

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:52:24PM -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Christian Lohmaier
> > > * not treating CTL/Asian scripts as second class (<quote>not to
> > > mention that "Asian" is a so ignorant
> > > orientalistic term in this context</quote>)
> > http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-definition/Orientalistic
> > I'm quite confused as to what was meant by this quote.
>
> The option named "Asian" is really about vertical text layout and other
> features of CJK writing systems.
>
> Asia is such a large piece of the land that virtually all writing
> systems in use today are used in large parts of it, which shows how
> ignorant an option name it is, treating "Asians" as some mysterious
> group of people doing exotic things AKA Orientalism (in the bad meaning
> of it).
>
> So if this option is to stay, it should be given a name that reflects
> what it actually does (and even if it goes, there are many instances of
> "Asian" in the UI that should be given sensible names).
>
> Regards,
>  Khaled