John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> wrote:
>> (His point is that if you have kanji in an IDN you can't tell whether
to
>> draw it the Japanese way or the Chinese way, of course, and since
>> civilization as we know it depends on Japanese people never being
>> confronted with Chinese writing styles, even when being used for
Chinese,
>> this obviously means that Unicode is Satan incarnate. Or something
like
>> that.)
>
> I am now developing a patch for Mozilla that causes it to display all
> URLs in Fraktur fonts only.
Only slightly more seriously, I imagine it would be possible to examine
the top-level domain and:
(1) if .cn, .tw, .hk, .sg, .mo --> display URL with Chinese glyphs
(2) if .jp --> display URL with Japanese glyphs
(3) otherwise punt (browser's choice)
IDNs are one place where *even I* would not suggest Plane 14 language
tags for glyph selection.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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