I would love to have such a facility because it is too much hassle to write bilingual/trilingual documents which is often the case at least in Indian environment. On Jan 28, 2013 6:17 PM, "William_J_G Overington" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was thinking about the problems of the long-term archiving of electronic > text documents and thought of an idea. > > I wonder if I may please mention the idea here in the hope of there being > a discussion so that an assessment of whether the idea is worth developing > can be made. > > The idea is that there would be an additional UTF format, perhaps UTF-64, > so that each character would be expressed in UTF-64 notation using 64 bits, > thus providing error checking and correction facilities at a character > level. > > If such a UTF-64 format were established as part of the standard, then > maybe in the future, for example, Microsoft WordPad could carry an option > to save a text file as UTF-64. > > At present, on the Windows xp system that I am using, when saving a text > file from within Microsoft WordPad one of the choices of file type is > listed as Unicode Text Document, which uses a UTF-16 format. > > A document saved as UTF-64 may well take four times as many bytes as such > a Unicode Text Document, yet there would be the error checking and > correction facilities at a character level. > > Similarly, there could be a type of pdf document where the text within the > pdf document were stored in UTF-64 format. > > So, I write to put forward the idea so as to seek opinions please on > whether establishing such a UTF format, whether UTF-64 or some other size, > with error checking and correction facilities at a character level would be > useful. > > William Overington > > 28 January 2013 > > > > >
