Re: Plane 14 language tags

2000-07-02 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 06:31 AM 6/29/00 -0800, you wrote: Thanks to all for your comments. Has anyone actually used these tags yet? Maybe we should postpone these tags for a while until we get a louder answer to your question, Doug. Once coded, here forever. A./

Re: Should furigana be considered part of plain text?

2000-07-02 Thread Doug Ewell
11-Digit Boy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that this is a text tagging issue, not a Unicode issue, unless you feel that there is some need to indicate Ruby/Furigana in plain text. At some point, plain text ceases to be plain if you decide that

Re: What I meant by furigana codes

2000-07-02 Thread John Hudson
At 02:37 PM 7/1/00 -0800, Michael \(michka\) Kaplan wrote: Well, its not entirely fair to say that Furigana is another way of saying Ruby in OpenType, since Furigana predates OpenType entirely, as well as the HTML/DHTML RUBY element. They do provide the same functionality though... Furigana is

Re: What I meant by furigana codes

2000-07-02 Thread Christopher John Fynn
"John Hudson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... In any case, Furigana is definitely what Adobe had in mind when they registered the ruby feature, as is evident from the feature description. Is this OT ruby feature to be applied when e.g. a ruby/ruby tag is encountered in HTML / XML? Or is this

Re: Plane 14 tags and SCSU

2000-07-02 Thread Mark Davis
In Asmus's defense, there are fewer recipients that will understand SCSU right now, so one needs to be a bit more carefull about slinging it around. On the other hand, for anything outside of plain English, it is quite a handy mechanism for interchanging Unicode text, so it can reduce memory

Re: The real problem?

2000-07-02 Thread John Hudson
At 11:16 AM 7/2/00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The REAL problem with this may be that the people discussing this issue are not native speakers of Japanese. Truth be told, neither am I. All I know is, furigana are a BIG help when you don't know many kanji. The question I'm pondering is