[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: "I don't think it's reasonable to expect a browser to apply various heuristics to determine the language." Since people really want Japanese to be displayed with a Japanese font and Chinese with a traditional or simplified Chinese font, the RichEdit facilty and some other Microsoft software apply heuristics to figure out which font to use for plain-text Chinese characters. We usually get it right, but as with any heuristics, errors can occur. CJK unification is a great idea, but unfortunately it isn't perfect in this respect. I've talked about this problem and our heuristics at a couple of recent Unicode conferences. With rich text, language attributes can be used which gets around the problem. In principle language attributes can also be inserted into plain text, namely as language mnemonics comprised of plane-14 annotation characters. But such characters can confuse text clients, so we haven't used them. Thanks Murray
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