Doug Ewell wrote as follows. quote
What happened to LTag? Well, as everybody knows, the Unicode Technical Committee strongly discourages the usage of these tags, to the point were they were almost deprecated earlier this year. They are permitted only in "special protocols," and are certainly frowned upon for use in arbitrary plain text, which is what LTag was for. So, in an attempt to restore some of my lost Unicode "street cred" I removed LTag from my site. I still keep the program around, but only as a reference to ISO 639 and 3166 codes. end quote Well, whether the tags were (italics) almost (end italics) deprecated earlier this year I do not know, yet the fact is that, after a lengthy and extended Public Review process as to whether to deprecate them, the tags were not deprecated but the situation was left broadly unaltered but with some additional notes to be included in the Unicode 4.0 document. It remains to observe what is to be put about tags in the Unicode 4.0 book. Whether tags will be used in interactive broadcasting as a feature used in (italics) some (end italics) content, such as with (italics) some (end italics) generic file handling packages for distance education, remains for the future, yet the option remains open. William Overington 4 April 2003
