Hi,
At Thu, 08 Feb 2001 15:10:02 +0000,
Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please calm down. Neither anybody here on this list nor anyone on the
> IRG has -- as far as I know -- ever suggested font unification! You have
> just made that up.
No, I have enough reason to think Karlsson thinks in such a way.
The context IRG was originally reffered is:
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2001-02/msg00113.html
[Karlsson]
>> I see. I know you are interested in promoting Unicode. I don't
>> deny it. However, today's Unicode is too poor for CJK people.
> You have not convinced anyone of that. All we hear is old
> Unicode bashing; not supported by experts.
And the "experts" means IRG people. This is explained in the following
mail:
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2001-02/msg00127.html
[Karlsson]
>> Who is your "East Asian experts"?
> What I'm referring to is the "Ideographic Rapporteur Group" (IRG),
Karlsson and I disagree with the point that I insist plain text must
have some mechanism to specify language (to specify variants of CJK
ideographs) (like language tag), while Karlsson insist that plain text
must not have such a mechanism. Karlsson refered IRG in order to
authorize his opinion and defeat my opinion. However, IRG does not
insist a single font can be used for display mixture of CJK languages,
i.e., IRG does not deny my opinion.
I also think the following message thinks IRG is against my opinion.
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2001-02/msg00143.html
[Harald]
>> As I said again and again, I say No. Study Japanese or Chinese,
> The IRG is not composed of Europeans.
I said "No" in the following context:
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2001-02/msg00140.html
[Tomohiro]
>> Don't use so-called plain text when you wish to make font
>> distinctions within the text. This has been the reply all
>> along, and will continue to be the reply.
> As I said again and again, I say No.
Thus, apparently, Harald thinks IRG thinks "Don't use so-called plain
text when you wish to make font distinctions within the text."
Ok, I am not interested in this type meta-discussion. Since you
posted a good proposal, I'd like to discuss on it.
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Tomohiro KUBOTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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