RE: [Ltru] Re: UTF-8

Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com> Mon, 18 September 2006 07:17 UTC

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Subject: RE: [Ltru] Re: UTF-8
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:04:42 -0700
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> From: Martin Duerst [mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp]


> Agreed. In my point of view, the pain of Bokm&#$!@*l outweights
> a lot of things. The main benefit is that native people can
> easily check that things are correct, which they won't do
> if we show them just a number.

There's lots of software that will interpret an NCR in an HTML, XML or HTML file and display it to the user as the actual character in the UCS for which it is a reference. I don't think there is any software that will do this for the file located at http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry. 




Peter Constable

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