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In article <jenkinsj-050193090315@tseng.taligent.com>
	jenkinsj@blowfish.taligent.com (John H. Jenkins) writes:

>Looking at the question closely, however, I'm not sure that it's an
>issue of legibility so much as an issue of representability.  For
>example, suppose I have a plain [Unicode] text of a Japanese commentary
>on the Confucian classics.  Which parts should I display using a
>"Japanese" font and which using a "Chinese" font?
>
>The answer is:  You have to go through by hand and fix it.  (*blech*)

>Next scenario, however:  I download the King James Bible (say) from an
>ftp site in plaintext form.  The KJV uses italics extensively with a
>specific semantic.  Which parts should I display using italics?
>
>The answer:  You have to go through by hand and fix it.  (*blech*)

Very very fair comparison.

You have claimed that when italicizing some part of some plaintext, we
must do it by hand. Very interesting.

Then, consider the following senarios.

<I have a plain [ISO 2022] text of a Japanese commentary
<on the Confucian classics.  Which parts should I display using a
<"Japanese" font and which using a "Chinese" font?
<
<The answer is: As designated by the escape sequences.

						Masataka Ohta

PS

May the hell fire burn you for fixing the KJ Vible wrongly.