Re: Fwd: Re: Transcoding Tamil in the presence of markup

From: Martin Duerst (duerst@w3.org)
Date: Sun Dec 07 2003 - 11:09:02 EST

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    Hello Peter,

    At 13:25 03/12/07 +0100, Peter Jacobi wrote:
    >Dear Doug, All,
    >
    > > BTW, your "Unicode test page" is marked:
    > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
    > > content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
    >
    >This is of course redundant as this is the HTTP default.

    Well, the HTTP spec unfortunately still says so, but the
    HTML spec (and we are dealing with HTML here) disagrees,
    and so does practice (if you look farther than just
    Western Europe).

    >The heading 'Unicode' means the logical content, not the
    >encoding. The Tamil content is given as hex NCRs.

    That's perfectly okay, of course.

    > > while your TSCII test page is marked "x-user-defined".
    >
    >As the legacy Tamil charsets are not IANA registered, Tamil
    >users typically have a TSCII font set up for the display
    >of "x-user-defined"pages.

    Why don't you do that, or get your Tamil contacts to do it?
    It needs a bit of insistence (repeated checking/reminders
    to the mailing list) and some patience, but otherwise is
    quite easy, and would help a lot. And you have the experience
    to describe how this relates to Unicode.

    Regards, Martin.

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