Dominikus Scherkl wrote: > > A good example is the production of multilingual > > manuals, which seem to be more and more common these days. > This is indeed a very good example.
... of something which is not very appropriate for plain text. > > I agree that in this example, higher-level markup would do > > all that is necessary. > But I'd like to read a "README.TXT" with a plain-text editor. > These files are very common - and if they're not deprecated > using plane-14-tags would be very nice to have in an multi-language > readme (where higher-level tagging is not available). Why shouldn't it be possible to make a plain-text multi-language "ReadMe.txt" without language tagging? Language tagging conveys extra information *about* the text, which is not *part* of the text itself. This extra information can be useful for a number of purposes (including selecting language-specific typographic details), but it is by no means *required* to transmit the text itself. It is "ReadMe.txt", not "LookAtMyGorgeousTypography.txt". :-) _ Marco
