From: Jefsey_Morfin (jefsey@jefsey.com)
Date: Fri Sep 29 2006 - 19:18:16 CST
At 18:56 29/09/2006, Hans Aberg wrote:
>On 29 Sep 2006, at 15:09, Jefsey_Morfin wrote:
>>we are in the language area, not in biology. So the real issue is how
>>the person see him/her/etcself ...
>
>I guess, that is the reason I bring it up, because there is a
>widespread, but faulty, view that mankind is divided into two
>physical sexes, and nothing else, and then standards come hardwired
>with that view.
>
>>... and how the language supports that
>>vision.
>
>This I do not see the point of. Unicode merely introduces a character
>set.
The character set is ISO 10646. Unicode provides additional files and
projects. The leading one is the CLDR. This project is where all the
peculiarities you discuss should be documented.
>>Ages are also important in languages, so are trades and
>>contexts. In our computer assisted/man-machine relation, the genders
>>"computer" and "agent" should be available. So we would often need
>>singular, plural, networked.
>>jfc
>
>I do not see what this has to to with characters for human physical
>sexes.
Unicode's globalization doctrine (internationalization of the
environment + localization of the edges) is stabilised by BCP 47 and
RFC 4646 by Mark Davis and Addison Phillips; They provides a
consistent language tagging [language, characters, region] for the
environment (pages and protocols), localization (CLDR files), and
language applications.
jfc
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