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- From: rap@news (Ross Paterson)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Language tagging
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 13:44:15 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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- References: <MELBY.93Jan6113951@dove.yk.fujitsu.co.jp>
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- From article <MELBY.93Jan6113951@dove.yk.fujitsu.co.jp>, by melby@dove.yk.fujitsu.co.jp (John B. Melby):
- | If what I have heard about the Unicode standard is accurate, Chinese
- | simplified forms are not distinguished from Chinese unsimplified forms
- | when they are effectively equivalent. Since the radicals for "eating"
- | and "metal" have simplified forms radically differing from the unsimplified
- | printed variants, a Japanese may not be able to distinguish certain
- | characters displayed using a Chinese character set (although usually
- | they should be distinguishable through context).
-
- No, they are distinguished, as are the different forms of the "door",
- "speech", "silk", "money", "vehicle", "horse", and "bird" radicals and
- several more. About the only radical where the simplified form doesn't
- get a different codepoint (unless something else in the character changes)
- is the "grass" radical -- "+ +" (4 strokes) vs "++" (3 strokes) -- but
- that shouldn't interfere too much with legibility.
-
- In any case, won't it be possible to specify in a MIME header which
- language the text is in, or which presentation conventions are preferred?
- --
- Ross Paterson <rap@doc.ic.ac.uk>
- Department of Computing, Imperial College, London SW7
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