"The languages in East Asia -- primarily Chinese, Korean, and Japanese -- often appear exotic and unfathomable to the majority of information technology professionals. As a result, early hardware and software were not designed to handle them. In an effort to make IT more accessible to the vast population, engineers in that part of the world came up with some very ingenious, but often mutually incompatible, solutions that stretched hardware and software to their limits.
"Fortunately, non-Asian IT companies soon recognized the potential of the East Asian markets, and standards began to emerge for the input, storage, and display of these languages. These standards greatly simplified development of software that can support a much wider range of languages, and allow speakers of these languages to have equal access to the benefits of information technology."
-- Charles Pau
Director, Globalization Architecture and Technology
Lotus Software
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