- From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 95 15:10:29 JST
- To: gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol)
- Cc: mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch, uri@bunyip.com
> >> I think people will to work in ASCII is forced to, but I think most > >> people *desire* to work in their native language. > > > >What's the problem? Japanese will use Japanese with ASCII Latin > >characters. > > That is fine for you, but there are people who do not feel as you > do. Even some European users feel dissatisfied. There are a lot of Eurpeans who think all the characters in the world are like Latin, who created half-solutions such as 8859/1 or Unicode. But, I don't think they can distinguish Latin "A" and Greek capital letter of alpha. > >> We should at the very least give people a choice. > > > >No. Anything with local option can't interoperate globally. > > I think the premise here is that not all systems can handle > multilingual text. This is true now, but will not be in the future. The problem is in people who can't recognize fancy characters, not in machines. > At > that point in time, this statement will be false. Which statement? > Of course, there is a high probability that the WWW will be obsolete > by the time multilingual systems become very widespread ;-) Hyper text has nothing to do with globalization. We need multilingual system at the plain text level. Masataka Ohta
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