"Kent Karlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This would not deprecate language tagging per se, of course. Language
> tags are fine to have in "higher level protocols", like XML (or
> something simpler). Helpful for spell checking, automatic hyphenation,
> perphaps language selection (among alternatives); but not at all helpful
> for glyph selection, despite many such claims.
Language tags or may not be useful for _glyph_ selection, but they are
quite useful for _font_ selection.
That is, most systems don't have sets of CJK fonts with complete
coverage of all Unicode glyphs in all prefered style variants.
They have a Japanese font, a Chinese font, etc, with distinct
styles.
Say I had a try-lingual dictionary list:
English Chinese Japanese
It would look awful entries in the Japanese column that happened to be
displayable in the Chinese font got displayed in the Chinese font,
and other entries in the Japanese font. Even worse if it was done
character-by-character.
Regards,
Owen
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