= How do you see the growth of a multilingual Web?
I see four main points:
- The Internet has contributed and will contribute to the wildfire spread of
English as a world language.
- The Internet can greatly help minority languages, but this will not happen by itself. It will only happen if people want to maintain the language as an aim in itself.
- The Web is very useful for delivering language lessons, and there is a big demand for this.
- The Unicode (ISO 10646) character set standard is very important and will greatly assist in making the Internet more multilingual.
*Interview of January 15, 2000
= What exactly do you do professionally?
I teach computing (through the Gaelic language) at a college on the island of Skye in Scotland. I maintain the college website, which is the main site worldwide with information on Scottish Gaelic.
= What do you think of the debate about copyright on the Web?