Re: lynx-dev Non-English input prompts

[David Combs]

RE  "MxN help directories".

I'm told that when eg a russian and a chinese speak, they
speak english.  Within africa, the same.

Pretty much anyone internationally-oriented speaks english,
they say.

The vast majority of stuff on the net is in english -- you give
me a percentage -- what would it be, 95%?  98%?

The young people everywhere are learning english.

Now, all that above -- add to it this:

With M$ pushing "use fancy fonts, pictures, etc",
and sun and ibm pushing java apps, and everyone but us
lynx-lovers wanting pictures, colors, moving objects, and
more pictures, and user-friendly (sic), 

and thus more and more sites becoming UN-friendly to
lynx -- the lifetime of lynx as a usable browser for
most of the net (save for ftp-sites) might not be too long
yet...

Too bad, for sure!!!

Anyway, going MxN anything re languages will be a HORRIBLE CAN
OF WORMS.

Maybe this group can limit itself to putting in HOOKS for 
pointing at different directories, that some lynx ADMINISTRATOR
can, if he/she wants, can make point to something.

But any work on actual translated text, etc, should be
totally segregated from the code set maintained by THIS group.


Agree?  Disagree?

David