RE: The result of the plane 14 tag characters review.

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 14:21:36 EST

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On 11/13/2002 09:03:26 AM "Dominikus Scherkl" wrote:

>Ok, this is less heavy, but not very much.
>Or what do you think what "weight" in this context means?!?

There is "weight" in terms of bandwidth, but also in terms of mechanisms
needed to interpret markup. It takes a lot more to handle HTML or XML than
it does simply language tagging using plane 14 characters -- or some
simpler form of markup than HTML / XML.

I'm not trying to argue specifically in favour of the plane 14 characters,
BTW.

- Peter

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