[tlug] Re: font encoding question

["Jim Breen" <jimbreen@example.com>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com> wrote:
> burlingk@example.com writes:
>  > > What is insufficiently inclusive about "universal"?
>  >
>  > I had read somewhere that if you tried to use Chinese, Japanese,
>  > and Korean together, that sometimes UTF-8 ran into issues.
>
> No, there are people who have issues.  "ichi" is "ichi" no matter
> which language.  The problem that people have is that they want to
> visually distinguish text in Japanese from text in Chinese with
> different fonts.

I quite agree. The people think the only way to get the glyphs different
is to have different code points either miss the point, or are just a
little xenophobic.

Jim
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Jim Breen
Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/