>> Unicode language tags are heavily deprecated. Language tagging is >> markup, and there is no point pretending you have plain text when you >> mark languages. > >Heavily deprecated? They were only added to the main body of the >standard in Unicode 3.1, which isn't a year old.
They came heavily deprecated. >The entire discussion is about the ambiguities that prevent displaying a >character in its native form without extra information. If your needs >include "use font A for language A, and font B for language B", and >languages A and B share codepoints, you need language tagging in some >form; no fontset will be able to figure it out. Feel free to show that >no people exist who want to do that. Who does need that? Even given all the Japanese arguments, what's wrong with displaying Chinese titles in a Japanese font? Chinese fragments in Japanese text usually are written in Japanese fonts. How many systems exist or are going to exist that will dynamically change the font when the language changes? -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
