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- From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Language tagging
- Message-ID: <2609@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 17:25:55 GMT
- References: <1321@blue.cis.pitt.edu> <1993Jan2.231703.21201@enea.se> <1336@blue.cis.pitt.edu> <1993Jan3.203017.232@enea.se>
- Sender: news@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp
- Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Lines: 17
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- In article <1993Jan3.203017.232@enea.se>
- sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
-
- >This I don't understand. If you throw away a short e-mail message
- >to a friend, why would it be necessary to tag the text with the
- >language?
-
- Why not?
-
- If I throw away a short e-mail message from Japan to Japanese
- friend living in China, how can my friend read the text with
- the appropriately shaped character?
-
- What if, the mail is stored in some mail box, mixed with Chinese
- mails? How can he print the entire mail box?
-
- Masataka Ohta
-