Re: unicode internal

Ben> we *don't* simply want to use some "charset" tag, because Ben> then we make artificial distinctions between iso-2022-jp, Ben> shift-jis and euc-jp, for example. We'll have to see if charset -> language heuristic mapping is sufficient, but if users/standards force charset -> font mapping on us, so be it. Ben> unicode also has the possibility of embedding a language tag Ben> in it (forced down the unicode consortium's throat by the Ben> japanese), but it is highly dispreferred. People find it distasteful, but there is no standard alternative except ISO 2022 ... which is precisely what we're trying to escape from. I don't see any difference in principle from the BIDI markers, which nobody seems to object to. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.