At 12:57 11/5/2002, Timothy Partridge wrote:
See my previous message in this thread.Doug Ewell recently said:> 1. Language tags may be useful for display issues. Another use for language tagging is the correct formation of ligatures. E.g. fi ligature is fine in English, but causes problems in Turkish because of confusion with undotted i.
I don't think anyone is questioning that language tagging is a good and useful thing. The question is whether using character codepoints as language identifiers is a good thing. I'm inclined to the view that it is not, and that language tagging should be handled, along with most (all?) other tagging, at a higher level.
John Hudson
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