On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:31:40PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Is it generally important or useful to be able to change language mid- > >sentence? (It's much simpler to store a single language for a whole data > >element, and it's much easier to render.) > > Depends on what you're doing. It can be useful in a word-processor, but > in something like Ogg tags it's generally not nessecary.
What about in something like lyrics? (Which aren't going in Ogg tags; I'm asking for future Ogg reference.) > >One of them appears to consider Unicode > >currently useless for real-world data exchange in CJK, and believes this > >to be a consensus among Asian users. > > A lot of Japanese users believe this, and a few Chinese. Most Chinese > seem to be happy, and I've never heard a Korean complaint. Is there any justification for this? > It's interesting that Japanese and Chinese, which are unrelated languages, > are sometimes mutually understandable when written, but somehow use totally > different scripts. Not quite sure what you mean, here. -- Glenn Maynard -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
