DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: New Language Poll

Since you closed comments on yet another poll about this subject, I'll reply here...

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I've got this notion of creating an 8-bit console font set that will cover the languages spoken by about 45% of people worldwide. Please help out by answering the poll about the language(s) you speak/read.

How many nearly identical polls does this kind of notion require?

Quote (newby @ Mar. 05 2008,00:35)

Interesting question. Is there a difference in fonts between US and British English?

We Yanks can generally understand your English and vice-versa. A Hindi, Bengala or Bejinghua reader would not have a clue (unless they were bilingual in English).

I'm looking at the opportunity for DSL to grow and spread around the globe, especially in areas where our cast-off hardware can still be made useful. To do that, we need a font that has most of the accent marks used by 40% of people world-wide. I'm looking at this in terms of providing the tool for others to use.

This is a hack that will take me a while.

My mistake - I've confused fonts and keyboard settings. To start the
poll pl put me down for English.

It's an admirable project. BOL.

Quote (lucky13l @ Mar. 05 2008,10:52)

1. How many nearly identical polls does this kind of notion require?

My apologies, I realized that the order of the items would make a difference in how people responded.

Quote (jaygeedsl @ Mar. 05 2008,17:33)

2. It's an admirable project. BOL.

Thanks for the encouragement.

original here.