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Re: Language tagging

#592
From: Masataka Ohta
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 17:25
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In article <1993Jan3.203017.232@enea.se>
	sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:

>This I don't understand. If you throw away a short e-mail message
>to a friend, why would it be necessary to tag the text with the 
>language?

Why not?

If I throw away a short e-mail message from Japan to Japanese
friend living in China, how can my friend read the text with
the appropriately shaped character?

What if, the mail is stored in some mail box, mixed with Chinese
mails? How can he print the entire mail box?

					Masataka Ohta
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From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
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Subject: Re: Language tagging
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