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[about having an A-umlaut for each language seperately to help sorting...]

I think it would be much wiser to use I higher level coding to indicate the
language of a string of characters. The scheme you propose would mean
indicating the language with every character you type -- I think a bit waste
of resources, whereas other standards (SGML) provide means of tagging a
character stream with this kind of information (although to me the SGML
standard is not fully clear about how to tag the language used)

Jeroen

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In article <1993Jan4.102448.9710@cs.ruu.nl>
	jhelling@cs.ruu.nl (Jeroen Hellingman) writes:

>I think it would be much wiser to use I higher level coding to indicate the
>language of a string of characters.

As Unicode wrongly unified Chinese and Japanese characters, we need the
differentiation for simple everyday job.

It should be noted that, printers for simple everyday job outputs
differently shaped glyph for correnponding Chinese/Japanese characters.

						Masataka Ohta

jhelling@cs.ruu.nl (Jeroen Hellingman) writes:

>[about having an A-umlaut for each language seperately to help sorting...]

I believe the sorting procedure is related to the user, not to the data.
It is the user which needs data sorted in the way the user
expect it, so s/he can find what s/he looks for.
For that purpose the character d (a-umlaut, a-diaresis, swedish/finnish
ae) should not have different encodings, according to language, as 
the user does not in many cases know what language the string is
in, for instance is Eberg a Danish or Swedish name. It would be
soretd differently, if it should be sorted according to the
original language.

Most national standards for collating (German, Austrian, Canadian,
Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish come to my mind) does not
provide specifications for collating according to the original
language, but only with respect to the letters. Some standards are
explicit about this, for example the Danish DS 377 standard.

So I would recommend *not* to have different versions of Latin
characters outside the BMP of 10646. 

I know to little of the Han/Kanji/Hanzi character collation to
give an educated opinion here.

Keld Simonsen

In article <1993Jan4.102448.9710@cs.ruu.nl> jhelling@cs.ruu.nl (Jeroen Hellingman) writes:
>(although to me the SGML
>standard is not fully clear about how to tag the language used)

The Text Incoding Initiative (TEI), which is based on SGML, provides
for a Writing System Description which allows an attribute "lang"
(value is a writing system identifer) to be applied to any element.

Glenn