Re: Simple high-ascii character encoding

JRS: In article <hsivonen-D25A62.10293026082005@xxxxxxxxxx>, dated Fri,
26 Aug 2005 10:29:30, seen in news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html,
Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@xxxxxx> posted :
>
>Isn't 'non-English' the definition of 'foreign'? :-) Although nowadays
>it is politically correct to say 'international' instead of 'foreign'.

Only if under US influence.

The true meaning of international (as in International Standard) is
something that should be understood everywhere, whereas the implication
of foreign is that it should be understood somewhere else.

International rightly includes one's own nation.

As examples, Latin was, 2000 years ago, an approximation to a truly
international language; but Icelandic has only IIRC ever been a foreign
language (except to Icelanders, of course).

To the vast majority of the world population, Finnish is foreign; but it
is not international.

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