Re: [tlug] Unicode

[simon colston <simon@example.com>]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 21:46:37 +1000 (EST)
Jim Breen <jwb@example.com> wrote:

> I'll try and pick up several sets of comments.
> 
> simon colston <simon@example.com> wrote:
> 
> >> I have to agree with this.  If you want to create a Japanese-Chinese
> >> dictionary in Unicode then there need to be separate codes for each
> >> character that looks the same to a Westerner's eyes but very
> >different to> the Japanese and Chinese.  
> 
> No you don't. There are ways of flagging language, either in markup
> (which is how I'd prefer it), or by embedded language-codes. 

Thanks for clearing that up.  The rest of this post was also very
informative.  Thank you.

Cheers,

Simon

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