- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 12:30:17 -0400
- To: mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch
- CC: www-international@w3.org
>> Your proposal is a >> patch over a broken design. If we had clean seperation, there would >> be two problems: I18N of naming, and I18N of searches. They >> could have the same technical resolution (use UTF-8), but that >> doesn;t mean to say they need to share the same *mechanism*. > >Having the same technical solution simplifies implementation. >And internationalized they need to be anyway. The question >of whether we would be better off with two separate mechanisms >is an interesting one, but it is independent of the question >of how to do internationalization. I disagree. The definition of the mechanism could have a drastic effect of the strategy to use for I18N.
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