Re: VS: Emoji: emoticons vs. literacy

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Fri Dec 26 2008 - 22:05:34 CST


On 12/26/2008 1:11 AM, Christopher Fynn wrote:
> Asmus Freytag wrote
>
>
>> One of the advantages of Unicode-based protocols (e.g.
>> MathML over TeX) was supposed to be the elimination of the need to use
>> markup for plain text-elements, reserving it for stylistic and other
>> information around and about the text.
>>
>> A./
>>
>
> Wasn't there a similar argument for language tags?
>
>
No - the argument for language tags was quite different, and
exceptional -- it's not one that should be considered as a valid
precedent for encoding.

A./



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