From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 4 17:38:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (dsl-206.169.4.82.wenet.com [206.169.4.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533D137BCAB for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:38:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us) Received: from localhost (abelits@localhost) by phobos.illtel.denver.co.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA11385; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:34:55 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 17:34:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits To: Anatoly Vorobey Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unicode on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Excellent.. now give users the option to cut your hair you hippie! -- Anonymous Coward To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message