"plain text" and plane 14 lang tags (was RE: Introducing the idea of a "ROMAN VARIANT SELECTOR")

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 11:59:42 EST


On 01/30/2002 05:09:13 AM Marco Cimarosti wrote:

>In plain text, I think that plane 14 language tags could be used

It seems to me that such usage confuses the meaning of "plain text". Use
of the plane 14 tagging characters to indicuate language would be markup
-- metadata that is separate from the content and that has some impact on
how the content should be processed. It's just a coincidence that the
markup uses distinct characters from the content.

- Peter

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