[DPUB-ANNOTATION-UC] 2.1.3 general observation about language identification [I18N-ISSUE-458] from Phillips, Addison on 2015-10-10 (public-digipub@w3.org from October 2015)

From: Phillips, Addison <addison@lab126.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 20:19:05 +0000
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Hello Dpub,

Here is our second comment:

[1] 2.1.3 general observation about language identification

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    http://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-annotation-uc/


    2.1.3 general observation about language identification

    Tags and annotations generally use natural language tokens (such as words). While Unicode allows text to be stored, passed, and processed without regard for the specific language, it is the case that strings can benefit from language metadata for character shaping, spell-checking, font selection and more. In additional, directionality information is usually desired.

[1] https://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/458


Addison Phillips
Principal SDE, I18N Architect (Amazon)
Chair (W3C I18N WG)

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.

Received on Saturday, 10 October 2015 20:19:32 UTC