On Wed, October 29, 2008 5:06 am, Dan Chiba wrote: > > These would be more accurate if revised to: > > "In addition, many legacy encodings for complex scripts are already > multibyte, eg, Chinese." > I'd probably avoid mentioning complex scripts here. Would complicate things. Esp since in horizontal mode, Chinese doesn't require complex rendering or text layout. It is would more likely be treated as complex script in vertical mode. Most complex script legacy encodings that I've worked with are not multibyte encodings. Whether you are looking at South-East Asia, South Asia or Central Asia most legacy encodings 8-bit encodings. -- Andrew Cunningham Research and Development Coordinator Vicnet State Library of Victoria Australia andrewc@vicnet.net.auReceived on Tuesday, 28 October 2008 19:38:41 GMT
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