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[നെടുമ്പാല ജയ്സെന്‍ Jaisen Nedumpala]

2008/8/29 David William Bitner <david.bitner at gmail.com>

> <rant>
> Why on earth are we giving Jaisen a hard time about using his native script
> to display his name?  One of OSGeo's goals is to be a truly international
> organization.  Yes, the main language of communication is English for this
> list, but Jaisen's name is his name for goodness sakes.  It may be true that
> many people don't have the ability to read the script -- or even have their
> computers set up that it doesn't even display right -- but it is all of our
> collective responsibility to understand that when we are taking part in
> discussion in an international list that sometimes we are going to deal with
> people whose native tongue may be different then ours.
> </rant>
>
> Jaisen, welcome to our community!
>

Thank you.... :)

>
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:39 AM, നെടുമ്പാല ജയ്സെന്‍ Jaisen Nedumpala <
> jaisuvyas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 2008/8/29 നെടുമ്പാല ജയ്സെന്‍ Jaisen Nedumpala <jaisuvyas at gmail.com>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2008/8/28 Paulo Marcondes <paulomarcondes at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> > The language is Malayalam. It is my name, displayed in this script. It
>>>> reads
>>>> > Nedumpala Jaisen. But in English, my name is stated as Jaisen
>>>> Nedumpala. :)
>>>>
>>>> Jaisen,
>>>>
>>>> then, for the sake of easy communication, you could, besides the
>>>> Malayam script, add you name in english.
>>>
>>>
>> It is not Malayam but, Malayalam.
>> Check: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam_language
>>            http://ml.wikipedia.org/
>>
>>>
>>>> Or, provide it in the signature.
>>>
>>>
>>> Done. :)
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just my 2 cents.
>>>> --
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>>>> -22.915 -42.224 = GG86jc
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