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- From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Language tagging
- Message-ID: <2613@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 18:08:10 GMT
- References: <1993Jan2.020512.3287@klaava.Helsinki.FI> <1321@blue.cis.pitt.edu> <1993Jan2.231703.21201@enea.se> <1336@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
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- In article <1336@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:
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- >It is true that Vadim's character set always carries language
- >information along with it, while bare Unicode does not. A Unicode based
- >system, though, will require more than the bare character set (which is
- >why I refer to it as a "Unicode-based system," rather than simply as
- >"Unicode").
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- Until we can figure how to attach the information, we can't use
- Unicode or "Unicode-based system".
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- >Concerning the former, I would normally require that my texts include
- >language identification,
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- So, how can you do that?
-
- Masataka Ohta
-