RE: [Ltru] Re: UTF-8

Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> Tue, 19 September 2006 13:40 UTC

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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:17:58 +0900
To: Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com>, LTRU Working Group <ltru@ietf.org>
From: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
Subject: RE: [Ltru] Re: UTF-8
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[chair hat on]

Peter, with the observation below, do you want to say
you are in favor of moving to UTF-8, or against, or
did you write that strictly as an observation only?

Regards,    Martin.

At 16:04 06/09/18, Peter Constable wrote:
>> 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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