Re: Unicode, character ambiguities

[Edward Cherlin <cherlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 10 January 2002 02:17 am, you wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:30:57AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> > My suggestion, in the case of Ogg tags, was to add a LANG
> > (renamed to UTF8_LANG) tag, indicating the font language the tags
> > should be displayed in (unless overridden).  This was also added
> > to the proposal.  Japanese users could tell their viewer to
> > ignore this tag and always use a Japanese font for CJK text.
>
> Hmm.  Looks like Unicode language tags are a much better solution.

Unicode language tags are heavily deprecated. Language tagging is 
markup, and there is no point pretending you have plain text when you 
mark languages. 

If you want tagging in plain text, use a standard. As far as I can 
tell, the best available standard for such things is XML, which 
defines Unicode as its preferred character set.

I see no reason to encode language in Ogg tags. Users should be able 
to choose a Unicode fontset that suits their needs for displaying all 
languages. 

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