Re: Unicode, character ambiguities

[Glenn Maynard <g_lutf8@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:31:40PM -0600, starner@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >Is it generally important or useful to be able to change language mid-
> >sentence?  (It's much simpler to store a single language for a whole data
> >element, and it's much easier to render.)
> 
> Depends on what you're doing. It can be useful in a word-processor, but
> in something like Ogg tags it's generally not nessecary.

What about in something like lyrics?  (Which aren't going in Ogg tags;
I'm asking for future Ogg reference.)

> >One of them appears to consider Unicode
> >currently useless for real-world data exchange in CJK, and believes this
> >to be a consensus among Asian users.  
> 
> A lot of Japanese users believe this, and a few Chinese. Most Chinese
> seem to be happy, and I've never heard a Korean complaint.

Is there any justification for this?

> It's interesting that Japanese and Chinese, which are unrelated languages,
> are sometimes mutually understandable when written, but somehow use totally
> different scripts.

Not quite sure what you mean, here.

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