- From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 16:29:57 +0900 (JST)
- To: dank@alumni.cco.caltech.edu (Daniel R. Kegel)
- Cc: ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM, insoft-l@cis.vutbr.cz
> [ietf-charsets' charter is to decide how best to represent text on > the Internet, now that ASCII is no longer enough for most Internet users. > Most members of the list seem happy with Unicode. Mr. Ohta is violently > opposed, What? I just say profiling is necessary. > and has proposed extending Unicode with several bits *per character* > to indicate language. When that was shot down, What was shot down? My proposal was welcomed at the Amsterdam IETF meeting. > A quick and dirty way to address the problem would be to define a set of > control codes as an extension of Unicode to indicate language, which makes the encoding quite stateful. > Unless something like this is done in a way that gains at least > grudging acceptance in Japan, we may not end up with a truly interoperable > method of representing text on the Internet! See RFC1554. Masataka Ohta --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
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