From ALB@immedia.ca Mon May 26 09:02:00 1994 Received: from Clouso.CRIM.CA by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA14541 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Thu, 26 May 1994 15:59:40 +0200 Received: from immedia.ca by clouso.crim.ca (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17590; Thu, 26 May 94 09:59:13 EDT Return-Path: Received: by immedia.ca (3.2/2.D) id AA28473; 26 May 94 14:05:21 -0500 Date: 26 May 94 14:02:00 -0500 From: ALB@immedia.ca Message-Id: <199405261405.AA28473@immedia.ca> To: comp-software-international@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu, i18n@dkuug.dk, tc304@dkuug.dk Cc: bealle@torolab6.vnet.ibm.com, cpwg-mail@revcan.ca, paref@vm1.ulaval.ca X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 umavs@torolab6.vnet.ibm.com Subject: Concurrent multilingual messages: think 3-D! ---------- In ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG20, and in Canada, we had an interesting discussion on concurrent (versus sequential, a special case of monolinguism) multilingual information processing applications. However we did not think about one element, and now reality goes beyond theoretical aspects: this morning, with my pay cheque, I had the surprise and pleasure to be given a nice bookmark, written in French on one side and in English on the other side (I keep the punch for the end): " L'ACCESSIBILIT, UNE FORCE AU TRAVAIL! LA SEMAINE NATIONALE POUR L'INTGRATION DES PERSONNES HANDICAPES DU 30 MAI AU 5 JUIN 1994 " and on the other side: " FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ACCESS IS WORKING NATIONAL ACCESS AWARENESS WEEK MAY 30 TO JUNE 5, 1994 " Now, apart from the fact that it does't say the same thing at all (I guess it is adapted to both linguistic groups' psychology, I'm not a publicity expert!), the interesting thing (the punch) is that it is also in braille on both sides (with the bumps punched, of course, perpendicular to the bookmark plane, but in opposite directions one side relative to the other!!!) Will that be possible to have printing (punching) devices with two sets of needles, one punching up, one punching down, for such kinds of applications? Or, like on 2-side copiers, a mechanism putting the card upside-down before the second phase punching? Interesting to note in our i18n standardization work. Alain LaBont Secrtariat du Conseil du trsor Gouvernement du Qubec