From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 11 16:45:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02971 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:45:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02755 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:44:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00169; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:44:04 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd000113; Thu Jun 11 16:44:03 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA01779; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:43:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199806112343.QAA01779@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: internationalization To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 23:43:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, itojun@iijlab.net, joy@urc.ac.ru, kline@tao.thought.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806112151.OAA00970@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Jun 11, 98 02:51:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > There will be a font for each round-trip character set. Character sets > > for which standards existed that codified code points in different > > languages were not unified. For example, English and Japanese. > > > > This is only a problem in the case of trying to use two locales > > simultaneously. This never happens, unless you are a linguistic > > scholar or translator. > > This is clearly fallacious, as evidenced by Ito-san's earlier message. > It is not uncommon for the ordinary asiatic citizen to want to use > several locale's glyph sets in a single context. They can use a markup language to select fonts. Naturally, I'd prefer the language be SGML rather than ISO 2022. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message