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Re: Language tagging

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From: Masataka Ohta
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 18:08
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In article <1336@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
	djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:

>It is true that Vadim's character set always carries language
>information along with it, while bare Unicode does not. A Unicode based
>system, though, will require more than the bare character set (which is
>why I refer to it as a "Unicode-based system," rather than simply as
>"Unicode"). 

Until we can figure how to attach the information, we can't use
Unicode or "Unicode-based system".

>Concerning the former, I would normally require that my texts include
>language identification,

So, how can you do that?

					Masataka Ohta
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