Emacs i18n

[Christopher Dimech]

Nature is a predatory journal.

How many chinese language articles have you read?  What really important 
information
do they contain, and how are they crucial to read?  When a similar thing was 
done
in russia, almost everything has by now been forgotten.

> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 10:55 AM
> From: "Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor" 
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Emacs i18n
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> Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [2021-07-21 
> 23:58:31] wrote:
> > Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> >>> China's opinion is irrelevant and full of shit.
> >> Your prejudice doesn't change the fact that a significant
> >> (and arguably an increasing) amount of research is done
> >> in Chinese.
> > I believe you, but how do you know that?
>
> Only occasional anectodal "evidence", sorry.
>
> But for example https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01076-x
> refers to a major increase in funding in China, and while AFAIK top
> research from China still aims to publish in English venues (which are
> still more prestigious and give more exposure), I expect a large
> fraction of that research is only published in Chinese (after all, the
> Chinese speaking audience is already fairly large ;-)
>
>
>         Stefan
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> PS: While the above talks about science in general, my own experience is
> limited to computer science, where English is arguably even more
> entrenched than in other fields.
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