Re: FW: A product compatibility question

2001-10-17 Thread Otto Stolz
Gary P. Grosso had written: I sometimes wonder if XML or some other standard will evolve toward some standard use of markup to denote different languages. Mark Davis wrote: XML (and HTML) already give you the capability of marking language. Look at xml:lang. If you are using XML, you should

Re: FW: A product compatibility question

2001-10-09 Thread Gary P. Grosso
Because of Unicode's Han unification, I was under the impression that to get both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese to really look right would require using different fonts for each. To have different fonts for the same characters in a single document would seem to require use and

Re: FW: A product compatibility question

2001-10-09 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 01:43 PM 10/9/01 -0400, Gary P. Grosso wrote: Because of Unicode's Han unification, I was under the impression that to get both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese to really look right would require using different fonts for each. To have different fonts for the same characters in a

RE: FW: A product compatibility question

2001-10-09 Thread Ayers, Mike
From: Asmus Freytag [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 01:02 PM At 01:43 PM 10/9/01 -0400, Gary P. Grosso wrote: Because of Unicode's Han unification, I was under the impression that to get both Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese to really look right

Re: FW: A product compatibility question

2001-10-09 Thread Gary P. Grosso
I appreciate these responses. I am certainly not an expert in Han unification. I am trying to reconcile what John says with what appears at http://www.unicode.org/charts/unihan.html. For example, there appear to be stylistic differences, at least, in a character such as:

RE: FW: A product compatibility question

2001-10-09 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 03:43 PM 10/9/01 -0500, Ayers, Mike wrote: Oooh - a swing and a miss! No -- a pretty complete misunderstanding of my posting on your part. The implication of my statements is that rich text support is required at least at some level of your architecture as soon as you want to go