Re: Red Hat 8 now uses UTF-8 by default for all non-CJK users

[Owen Taylor <otaylor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bruno Haible <haible@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Jason Maiorana wrote:
> > > Also, there is the problem that its really not possible to show both
> > > chinese and japanese together in a simple text document, because no
> > > one font can show chinese, simplified chinese, and japanese all at
> > > once.
> 
> No single font can, and that's why these language tags have been added
> to Unicode 3.2.
> 
> Karl Eichwalder replied:
> > The rest can go for a tagged file format
> 
> Unicode 3.2 _is_ this tagged file format.

As I understand it, many members of the Unicode consortium 
consider the Plane-14 language tags to be pretty awful things;
they were added very grudgingly.

The standard says:

 "[italics] use of these characters is strongly discouraged"

(Section 13.7).

Regards,
                                        Owen

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