Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 15:45:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), itojun@iijlab.net, joy@urc.ac.ru, kline@tao.thought.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: internationalization Message-ID: <199806112245.PAA01221@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jun 1998 23:43:56 -0000." <199806112343.QAA01779@usr09.primenet.com>
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> > > 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. If you're advocating the use of a markup language, ie. forcing the issue into the application domain, then you're buying out of the entire issue by suggesting that it's not required in the system domain. Not that I necessarily disagree, just that you're effectively moving the language/character set bigotry line rather than doing away with it. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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