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Re: An alternative I18N paradigm

#646
From: Masataka Ohta
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 08:31
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	terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:

>>Other kinds of tags might be necessary for certain types
>>of processing, e.g., yomi (phonetic reading) tags for allowing the
>>display of furugana, sort keys for allowing producer specified sorting
>>behavior, and so forth.
>
>Yes!

Wrongo!

Phonetic reading tags is overkill, which make everything too much
complicated.

Making something complex only makes the problem unsolvable.

>>10646 will not even address any of these matters.  However, Unicode may
>>do so in the form of implementation guidelines or further work on I18N.
>
>Yes!

What?

The original DIS 10646 was free from CJK unification defect.

Then, Unicoders made 10646 unusable ignoring many rational oppositions.

>>Nonetheless, I think that it is quite important for many parties to begin
>>implementing such systems so that development of standard tags and tagging
>>systems can proceed.  We need prior art and experience in these areas
>>before effective standards can be developed with a reasonable hope of
>>success.

We have many prior arts in Japan, based on which the original DIS 10646
was constructed.

Unicode, as it is now, is unusable and can't be implemented on a usable
internationalized product.

						Masataka Ohta
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