Re: [Encoding] false statement [I18N-ACTION-328][I18N-ISSUE-374]

Anne van Kesteren scripsit:

> Writing systems that cannot be done in Unicode cannot be done on the
> web. There's no infrastructure in place for such systems. (Apart from
> PUA font hacks.)

Font hacks (whether PUA or Win1252) *are* the infrastructure in place
for such systems.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
It was dreary and wearisome.  Cold clammy winter still held sway in this
forsaken country.  The only green was the scum of livid weed on the dark
greasy surfaces of the sullen waters.  Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed
up in the mists like ragged shadows of long-forgotten summers.
        --LOTR, "The Passage of the Marshes"

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