[tei-council] more on internationalization

[M. J. Driscoll]

> After that, how to decide on priorities?
> 
>  * How many Danes doing text encoding cannot read English? 

Probably not many, but then there aren't that many Danes 
doing text encoding. The point, though, is that just 
because people _can_ use something in a foreign language 
doesn't mean they wouldn't prefer to have it in their own, 
and the question we should rather be asking is how many 
Danes (Swedes, Germans, whatever) would be doing text 
encoding if the schemes and tools were available to them in 
their own languages. Even Microsoft's worked that one out.

*
>  how many Bulgarians do text encoding?

Any number of them, as you'll discover in October. But here 
the everybody-speaks-English-don't-they?-attitude is even 
less appropriate, since in Bulgaria, as in most of the 
world, everybody doesn't speak English (thank God), and 
shouldn't have to. Which I thought was the whole point of 
this exercise.

MJD