@gąska said in I hate Scala:
@dfdub we have suffered DECADES of cultural hegemony of USA in the IT world. We were denied using our own language because some sorry ass "developers" from the other side of planet couldn't be arsed to support more than 95 characters even though it would cost them nothing.
I have two problems here. If you is Poland, it was illegal for the US manufacturers to sell you anything in the computer field until the end of the Cold War. Eastern European entities were copying Western software without permission; I think it their job, not the US's, to make sure it was fit for Polish purposes.
In the 1970s, European countries standardized various 7-bit variations of ISO 646. In 1987, they standardized Latin-1. In 1998, after Unicode was out for seven years, Sweden registered a variant of ISO/IEC 8859-13 (Latin-7) that included the Euro sign for use with ISO 2022 In the 1980s, Japan and China had the closest thing to multilingual character sets, by adding Greek and Russian characters to their 16-bit character sets, and they seemed to lead the way to international character sets mainly because that was the way to get the rest of the world to get decent support for their languages. European countries, like everyone else, did the very minimum they could to support their languages and didn't worry about other languages, not even producing a pan-European character set. In the wave of 8-bit home PCs in the 1980s, you didn't see any European systems with amazing text processing ability. It's easy to blame someone else, but it was neither the US's fault or responsibility.