I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the largest country/island where
people drive on the left: Australia. Fortunately, because of our
isolation, Australian cars rarely visit other places, and foreign cars
rarely visit Australia, so there are nno gateway problems. However,
there is still a problem for human beings who travel to different places
getting used to different road rules. Even pedestrains have to chanfe
their habits about which way they look first before they cross a road
The same is true for data encoding schemes like EBCDIC and Unicode. even
if translation between systems is handled easily and automatically, you
still have the problem of users having to change their habits when they
move between systems.
Giles
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On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
> > In some ways, this is wandering off the subject, but in
> > others, it's right on the mark. First, Ken, driving on the
> > left is hardly confined to Great Britain. It also is the
> > method used in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Ireland.
> > I'm sure others on the list will supply additional examples.
> >
>
> e.g. New Zealand.
>
> It was a *joke*, folks. Next time I'll be sure to put in the
> smileys.
>
> Note the correlation with islands, by the way, since we're
> wondering off topic.
>
> --Ken
>
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