From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 11 16:54:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05011 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:54:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA04969 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:54:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA01221; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 15:45:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806112245.PAA01221@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Terry Lambert cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), itojun@iijlab.net, joy@urc.ac.ru, kline@tao.thought.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: internationalization In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jun 1998 23:43:56 -0000." <199806112343.QAA01779@usr09.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 15:45:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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. 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