Re: Indic Devanagari Query

From: Andrew C. West (andrewcwest@alumni.princeton.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 05 2003 - 05:05:44 EST

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    On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 02:00:30 -0800 (PST), jameskass@att.net wrote:

    > If these alternate forms were needed to be displayed in a single
    > multi-lingual plain-text file, wouldn't we need some method of
    > tagging the runs of Latin text for their specific languages?

    Is this not what the variation selectors are available for ?

    And now that we soon to have 256 of them, perhaps Unicode ought not to be shy
    about using them for characters other than mathematical symbols.

    Andrew



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