Re: Talk about Unicode Myths...

From: David Starner (starner@okstate.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 20 2002 - 21:24:25 EST


On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 10:26:16AM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote:
> <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

Actually, you can use Plane 14 characters.
 
> because of Character Unification. So far you have to resort to markups
> and that is the reason I am objecting to Character Unification.

So you believe that each language should have its characters encoded
seperately? Why, exactly, does it matter that English and Japanese are
marked as to language above?

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David Starner - starner@okstate.edu
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