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• From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
• Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 13:12:55 +0900 (JST)
• To: ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM
• Message-id: <9311120413.AA21180@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>

> We can't expect _plain text_ to support
>
> a) high-quality rendering of text mixing Chinese and Japanese
>    ideographic characters

Yes, we can.

Correctly speaking, we can't expect ISO10646 to support it.

Still, plain text with ISO10646 can support

> a) high-quality rendering of text mixing English and Greek
>    characters

OK?

> Why should properties like these not be encoded on the basic
> plain text level?

Because we don't use plain text with that quality.

But, we do use different characters for Japanese plain text and
Chinese plain text in a consistent fashion.

						Masataka Ohta

--Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)

Received on Thursday, 11 November 1993 20:17:35 UTC