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Article #646Re: An alternative I18N paradigm
From: Masataka Ohta
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 08:31
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 08:31
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In article <1993Jan7.054124.14059@fcom.cc.utah.edu> 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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!sgiblab!nec-gw!nec-tyo!wnoc-tyo-news!cs.titech!titccy.cc.titech!necom830!mohta From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: An alternative I18N paradigm Message-ID: <2638@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> Date: 7 Jan 93 08:31:22 GMT References: <1hncs1INN1qq@corax.udac.uu.se> <DAN.92Dec29102634@dan.watson.ibm.com> <1hu9v9INN923@life.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan7.054124.14059@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Sender: news@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Lines: 41