> > > And it's a pretty easy guess that there are quite a few more users > with Japanese and Chinese filenames in the same file system than > users with Latvian and Marshallese filenames in the same file > system, both because both Chinese and Japanese are used by many more > people than Latvian or Marshallese and because China and Japan are > much closer than Latvia and the Marshall Islands. > > I oppose language-tagging as a mechanism to fix the cock-up of > slavishly following 8859 decomposition for cedilla and comma-below. > Character encoding is the better way to deal with this. > > Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/ > > >
I agree with Michael on this. We have a problem that is a bit more complicated than which fonts are used. The Unicode Standard, quite some time ago, began to explicitly follow 8859 legacy practice for representing Latvian letters such that an n with cedilla would be represented as an n with comma below. To paraphrase Michael, we do have a cock-up on our hands. Language tagging has not been a viable solution for smaller user communities, as they are just not well-supported. Lisa
