Comments for Musings on software globalization

Comment on Now I know what I’ve been working on these past months! by globalizer

globalizer — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:20:57 +0000

Hi Kasper,
I don’t know of any plans to market them in Denmark, but I am also not privy to marketing information, so that does not necessarily tell you much. Orange UK just made the DEXT available in the UK, that’s the closest I can get right now!
I would love to see them on the market in Denmark also.

Comment on Now I know what I’ve been working on these past months! by Kasper Gaardhøje

Kasper Gaardhøje — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:50:05 +0000

Hi Elisabeth. I was wondering If you know, if the DEXT/CLIQ handset will be available to the danish public. And when it will be introduced to the marked. I am very interested in getting hold of one. Best regards

Comment on Dutch, Danish, same difference by Dutchgirl

Dutchgirl — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:27:10 +0000

I am Dutch, and have been living in California for the past 2 years. Someone told me about this little “Dutch” town called Salving. I looked it up and the only website taht got the whole story right is the visitors website for Salving. Before reading that website, all the websites I came across used Dutch and Danish interchangeably..very confusing!Guess it is really a Danish town though, not Dutch…although some say they do have windmills and sell clogs, which is typically Dutch but not positive that they actually do, since I have not been there myself. I have come across many people thinking Denmark was was just another name for Holland(yes I do use Holland most of the time instead of Netherlands, but do know the difference and I am actually from Zuid-Holland so I think I should be allowed:P) but after trying to figure out whether this town was Dutch or Danish, it really showed me how many people get it totally wrong. I personally think it’s ignorance but that’s just my opinion;)

Comment on Can we agree that all those ISO8859_1 hacks are just that – hacks by warrior

warrior — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:14:08 +0000

Hi Elsebeth Flarup,

I think you have written very good article.
I was very much clear that all the characters are a codepoints in computer and that codepoint must always be accompanied with the encoding type. Like, suppose a codepoint D8 but if we donot know the encoding in which the sender has sent it, we will not be able to get exactly what it should be from the senders point of view.

So, whenever I have a byte array I must know its encoding correctly beforehand, to have correct unicode string in java.

Then suddenly I started seeing the code like you mentioned new String(String.getBytes(“ISO_8859-1″),”UTF8″); And this started me to confuse as I was not finding the answer why this works.

Somebody told me that getBytes(“ISO_8859-1″) cuts string into each byte, and byte value is the code point. So each cuts string into code points of each byte so this becomes successful.

But I think your explanation sounds more logical.

Do reply me, I wanted to be with you to make this mystery more clearer to mass of java people.

Comment on Dutch, Danish, same difference by Legal Alien » Blog Archive » Clueless about Geography

Legal Alien » Blog Archive » Clueless about Geography — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:40:22 +0000

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Comment on Dutch, Danish, same difference by I'm Not Belgish

I'm Not Belgish — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:30:00 +0000

Reminds me of a story with similar confusion: In the USA, I used to work with a couple of guys from Belgium. Mentioned this to a friend who asked, “Oh, do they speak Belgish?”

Comment on That’s energy efficiency we can believe in… by eratiania

eratiania — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:08:01 +0000

Fantastic writing=D i will definitely come back soon=)

Comment on Dutch, Danish, same difference by Ikbenhet

Ikbenhet — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:42:35 +0000

What’s wrong with calling the inhabitants of the United States of AMERICA Americans? I mean what do you want to be called? United States of Americans? Come on.. and the misunderstanding between Holland and the Netherlands came to be in the 16th century. The Netherlands wasn’t a country, just some small states working together a bit. England and France decided later they should be one country. Holland (later divided into Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland) was the richest small state and that’s why people call the Netherlands Holland sometimes. I prefer the Netherlands but I don’t think it’s incorrect to say Holland.

Comment on Property resource bundle encoding by Ivošek

Ivošek — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:49:08 +0000

You can also use http://itpro.cz/juniconv/ for converting Unicode to ASCII and vice versa.

Comment on Dutch, Danish, same difference by globalizer

globalizer — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:54:11 +0000

Oh, so we can blame it all on the Dutch for messing up the connection between their language and their country

Dutch is definitely related to Diets/Dietsch, yes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietsch

And looking at the bright side from the Danish point of view: there are worse countries/people to get confused with than the Dutch