Jonathan Kew wrote: > What about British English "d" versus American English "d"? Would they be distinct? (Provocative statement removed from public copy). [M]ore seriously, in making such a decision the standards body would need to consider a number of factors. For example, do texts expressed in A use exactly the same character set as texts expressed in B ? (Answer "yes" for <Am.E>/<Br.E>, "no" for <VN>/<EN>. Do texts expressed in A convey the same meaning as the same text expressed in B ? ("not always" and "no", respectively). Do texts expressed in A, when spoken by a native speaker of A, sound the same (whatever that means) as the same text in B spoken by a native speaker of B ? ("No", for Mandarin/Cantonese, for example). I am not trying to suggest for one second that I have all the answers, Jonathan (afterthought : or perhaps even any of them); rather that Unicode was a good attempt, but I am sure we can do better if we try (and I think we /should/ try). ** Phil. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Re: [XeTeX] [OT] character encoding ideas [was: Re: Strange hyphenation with polyglossia in French]
Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:21:29 -0700
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