>>What, exactly, needs to be done by an application (or rather, its data
>>formats) to accomodate CJK in Unicode (and other languages with similar
>>ambiguities)?

The proposed standards document says:
> Character Set Encoding of Tags:
> ===============================
>
> UTF-8 is the default encoding for tag data.  Unfortunately UTF-8 muffed
> it for Asian languages by doing the equivalent of giving the same
> character codes to English, Russian, and Greek letters.  

It's interesting that Japanese and Chinese, which are unrelated languages,
are sometimes mutually understandable when written, but somehow use totally
different scripts.


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