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From article <MELBY.93Jan6113951@dove.yk.fujitsu.co.jp>, by melby@dove.yk.fujitsu.co.jp (John B. Melby):
| If what I have heard about the Unicode standard is accurate, Chinese
| simplified forms are not distinguished from Chinese unsimplified forms
| when they are effectively equivalent.  Since the radicals for "eating"
| and "metal" have simplified forms radically differing from the unsimplified
| printed variants, a Japanese may not be able to distinguish certain
| characters displayed using a Chinese character set (although usually
| they should be distinguishable through context).

No, they are distinguished, as are the different forms of the "door",
"speech", "silk", "money", "vehicle", "horse", and "bird" radicals and
several more.  About the only radical where the simplified form doesn't
get a different codepoint (unless something else in the character changes)
is the "grass" radical -- "+ +" (4 strokes) vs "++" (3 strokes) -- but
that shouldn't interfere too much with legibility.

In any case, won't it be possible to specify in a MIME header which
language the text is in, or which presentation conventions are preferred?
--
Ross Paterson <rap@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Department of Computing, Imperial College, London SW7