Re: Unicode, character ambiguities

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Followup to:  <20020109071127.GA19291@xxxxxxxx>
By author:    Glenn Maynard <g_lutf8@xxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
> 
> Hmm.  Round-trip between Unicode and JIS and EUC-JP is guaranteed,
> apparently ... so I can't see any real reason for this belief.  You need
> to know the language in some cases, but before you needed to know the
> encoding.  That's an improvement.  (If the "selectors" which were just
> mentioned allow selecting languages for single characters, then there'll
> be even less need to be able to change the language mid-sentence.)
> 

<LANGUAGE TAG><TAG 'z'><TAG 'h'>
<LANGUAGE TAG><TAG 'j'><TAG 'p'>
<LANGUAGE TAG><TAG 'k'><TAG 'r'>

This has been in Unicode for a while; the Unicode specification is not
very precise, as far as I gather, but everyone does seem to agree how
it should be handled.

	-hpa
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