Re: [tlug] "strange antipathy towards Unicode" . . . . . . . . (was: Re: Learn a Variety of Languages)

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Jim wrote:

> ...which I understand as meaning that there shouldn't be any problem
> with Japanese _only_ text, even mixing kanji, hiragana, and katakana.
> My understanding is that the problem occurs when one mixes Chinese
> characters from different CJK languages in olain text Unicode.

Right. The Unicode standard specifically says, "we do not support
determining what language you're writing in; use something else to do
that." Some Japanese people, it appears, can't accept that.

I'm not sure why. French users do not have a big problem, when using
ISO-8859-1, with the problem that they can't determine whether the
string "problem" is in English or French.

cjs
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