[Info-vax] Internationalization

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-01-01 kl. 09:02, skrev Dave Froble:
> On 12/31/2018 7:01 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2018-12-31 kl. 17:36, skrev Dave Froble:
>>> On 12/31/2018 7:00 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>>> Den 2018-12-31 kl. 08:14, skrev Dave Froble:
>>>>> On 12/30/2018 8:25 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>>>> On 2018-12-30, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 12/29/2018 4:46 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> VAX, Alpha or Itanium are unlikely to see any work on UTF-8, and
>>>>>>>> certainly not until well after the x86-64 port and a pile or
>>>>>>>> three of
>>>>>>>> other work is completed.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There are no new VAX, Alpha, or itanic chips.  They are DEAD!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Unless there's something I am unaware of, you can still buy new
>>>>>> Itanium systems.
>>>>>
>>>>> For a short time, yes, but not for long.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> If anyone was to put significant work into any of those three
>>>>>>> environments, they're probably also asking to be dead.  There is no
>>>>>>> known (to me) reasons for any such activity.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Based on VSI's offerings, there is clearly still a need for supported
>>>>>> Alpha systems. It doesn't matter that the Alphas might be emulated
>>>>>> Alpha systems because it means people are still running Alpha based
>>>>>> code in production.
>>>>>
>>>>> VSI has already addressed this, with Versions 8.4 2L1 and 2L2.  These
>>>>> are VSI releases, not HP releases, which takes HP(e) out of the
>>>>> picture.  While they may have on on going releases,
>>>>
>>>> Can you explain that "may have on on going releases".
>>>
>>> No Nan-Erik, I'm not VSI.  I cannot say what they might do.  I can
>>> make some guesses.
>>>
>>
>> I do not understand your answer. Was that ment to read:
>>
>> "While they may have _no_ on going releases" ???
>>
>> It was that double "on on" I did not understand.
> 
> Yes, a typo, my bad ....
> 

Right, then I do not understand why you didn't looked that up
when I asked about it. Anyway...

So, if I *now* understand what you are saying, had you looked up
the current Alpha roadmap before claiming that "they may have no
on-going releases"? Was that claim made knowing about the currect
roadmap including V8.5 and V9.2?