From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Wed Feb 05 2003 - 12:12:34 EST
On 02/04/2003 02:52:25 PM jameskass 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?
The plain-text file would be legible without that -- I don't think this is
an argument in favour of plane 14 tag characters. Preserving
culturally-preferred appearance would certainly require markup of some
form, whether lang IDs or for font-face and perhaps font-feature
formatting.
- Peter
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Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
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