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- From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: An alternative I18N paradigm
- Message-ID: <2638@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 08:31:22 GMT
- References: <1hncs1INN1qq@corax.udac.uu.se> <DAN.92Dec29102634@dan.watson.ibm.com> <1hu9v9INN923@life.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan7.054124.14059@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan7.054124.14059@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
-
- >>Other kinds of tags might be necessary for certain types
- >>of processing, e.g., yomi (phonetic reading) tags for allowing the
- >>display of furugana, sort keys for allowing producer specified sorting
- >>behavior, and so forth.
- >
- >Yes!
-
- Wrongo!
-
- Phonetic reading tags is overkill, which make everything too much
- complicated.
-
- Making something complex only makes the problem unsolvable.
-
- >>10646 will not even address any of these matters. However, Unicode may
- >>do so in the form of implementation guidelines or further work on I18N.
- >
- >Yes!
-
- What?
-
- The original DIS 10646 was free from CJK unification defect.
-
- Then, Unicoders made 10646 unusable ignoring many rational oppositions.
-
- >>Nonetheless, I think that it is quite important for many parties to begin
- >>implementing such systems so that development of standard tags and tagging
- >>systems can proceed. We need prior art and experience in these areas
- >>before effective standards can be developed with a reasonable hope of
- >>success.
-
- We have many prior arts in Japan, based on which the original DIS 10646
- was constructed.
-
- Unicode, as it is now, is unusable and can't be implemented on a usable
- internationalized product.
-
- Masataka Ohta
-