On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 02:39:29AM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: |On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 03:58:10PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: |> |> I think ASCII is the universal and safe character set. |> I suggest to write |> |> *** -> ###(NIHONGO) |> @@@ -> &&&(RUSSKII) |> Espa$ol -> Espa+ol |> |> and so on, where |> |> *** is 'Japanese' in Japanese letters in Japanese local codeset, |> ### is 'Japanese' in Japanese letters in "numeric character reference", |> @@@ is 'Russian' in Cyrillic letters in ISO-8859-5, |> &&& is 'Russian' in Cyrillic letters in "numeric character reference", |> $ is 'n' with tilde in ISO-8859-1 (I don't like to use ISO-8859-1 in e-mail |> because it is not universal), |> + is 'n' with tilde in "numeric character reference", and so on. |> |> Optionally, 'Espa+ol' may be 'Espa+ol(Espanol)' or may not. |> (I like this, but someone may feel this is too verbose.) |> |What do others think about having all the languages that appear as |jibberish in ascii append the language name in ascii (in parentheses)?
This sounds like a good idea. (I hope all browsers can support the "numeric character reference" in the future) |What about Chinese, where it is really the same language just represented |in two different codings? Not really the same. I think we can use "Fanti Zhongwen" for the tradtional chinese (Big5) pages and "Jianti Zhongwen" for the simplified chiense (GB) pages. -- Anthony Wong.