Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:34:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> To: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004041729500.11214-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004041723030.11214-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
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On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Alex Belits wrote:
> > You mean, MIME multipart documents are better than Unicode if I, for instance,
> > want to handle Tolstoy's "War and Peace" with French quotes in the middle of
> > Russian sentences?
> >
> > I don't think so.
>
> This is what multipart format exists for -- to combine documents or
> sections in the document with possibly different metadata in the
> headers. The idea of "mail attachment" appeared later.
I have to add that I agree that the way, MIME multipart is handled is
primitive and inconvenient for such applications, however this is not the
result of any flaw in its design, only of the lack of progress after
"everything should adopt Unicode" doctrine was declared. One may argue
that the way that TeX handles such a text is even more inconvenient,
however even now it's most likely that TeX would be used for this kind of
typesetting.
--
Alex
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