RE: New draft of What is encoding

Hi Martin,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Duerst [mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp] 
> Sent: 22 November 2007 01:44
> To: Richard Ishida; public-i18n-core@w3.org
> Subject: Re: New draft of What is encoding
> 
> Hello Richard,
> 
> Some comments I wrote up a while ago, without completely 
> reading the document:
> 
> "or the Devanagari X." -> "or the Devanagari character X."
> (otherwise, some people may read this as 'Devanagari' being 
> usable for denoting single characters).

Changed.

> 
> "If you are to correctly decode the sequence" -> "If you want 
> to correctly decode the sequence"
> ('are to' sounds a bit impersonal to me, also it's more 
> difficult for foreign speakers than 'want'; otherwise, avoid 
> using 'you' (probably better in this case, as it is about 
> something very mechanical), e.g. changing to "In order to 
> correctly...")

Due to rewording that phrase has gone now.

> 
> Regards,    Martin.
> 
> At 00:29 07/11/16, Richard Ishida wrote:
> >
> >http://www.w3.org/International/wiki/What_is_encoding
> >
> >Please take a look and comment by/on Tuesday.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >RI
> >
> >============
> >Richard Ishida
> >Internationalization Lead
> >W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
> > 
> >http://www.w3.org/International/
> >http://rishida.net/blog/
> >http://rishida.net/
> >
> > 
> 
> 
> #-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
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