Re: [tlug] Unicode

["J. David Beutel" <jdb@example.com>]

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, simon colston wrote:

> But there may be benefits in having separate code points that don't
> overlap.  If you type 'vent' into a search engine you are not searching

For that, you could use the separate, old character sets, instead of 
Unicode.

> for "four characters that look like 'vent'", you are searching for "text
> that contains the word that has the meaning 'vent'".  Any results that
> have a different meaning are useless for that search.  The search engine
> could use any available markup information, I suppose, but markup should
> not really be used to give meaning to a document, rather just information
> on how the document should be displayed.

On the contrary, the markup should provide only meaning.  The display 
should be the user's choice.

Doing a web search in a particular language should be solved above the 
level of character encodings.

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