On 02/05/2003 04:05:44 AM "Andrew C. West" wrote:

>> If these alternate forms were needed to be displayed in a single
>> multi-lingual plain-text file, wouldn't we need some method of
>> tagging the runs of Latin text for their specific languages?
>
>Is this not what the variation selectors are available for ?

That is a possible technical solution to such variations, though specific
character+variant combinations would have to be approved and documented by
UTC. It's not the only solution, and might or might not be the best.




- Peter


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