Re: Talk about Unicode Myths...

From: Dan Kogai (dankogai@dan.co.jp)
Date: Wed Mar 20 2002 - 20:26:16 EST


On Thursday, March 21, 2002, at 04:21 , Stefan Persson wrote:
> And if someone puts a Japanese page on a .cn address, or vice versa...?
>
> Wouldn't it be better to use
> <META http-equiv=Content-Language content=ja>
> - and -
> <META http-equiv=Content-Language content=zh>
> to distinguish between the two glyph displaying forms?

   The problem is that you can't make the document multilingual that
way. But HTML and XML allows you can still go like;

<SPAN lang=en>Hello!</SPAN> <SPAN lang=ja>Doumo!</SPAN>

   The problem is you can't make text/plain to go that way with Unicode
because of Character Unification. So far you have to resort to markups
and that is the reason I am objecting to Character Unification.

Dan the Man with Too Many Tags



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