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By author: Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> Hmm. Round-trip between Unicode and JIS and EUC-JP is guaranteed,
> apparently ... so I can't see any real reason for this belief. You need
> to know the language in some cases, but before you needed to know the
> encoding. That's an improvement. (If the "selectors" which were just
> mentioned allow selecting languages for single characters, then there'll
> be even less need to be able to change the language mid-sentence.)
>
<LANGUAGE TAG><TAG 'z'><TAG 'h'>
<LANGUAGE TAG><TAG 'j'><TAG 'p'>
<LANGUAGE TAG><TAG 'k'><TAG 'r'>
This has been in Unicode for a while; the Unicode specification is not
very precise, as far as I gather, but everyone does seem to agree how
it should be handled.
-hpa
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