From: "Jim A. Fetters" <fetters@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 01:00:54 -0700 (MST)
Subject: [www-mling,00170] multilingual docs
Message-Id: <Pine.SOL.3.90.950111004938.9218E@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu>
To use a listing of preferred character sets shows a preference
for one character set over another, but it still doesn't allow
the server to know which charsets *can* be served to the browser.
Conceivably, all computers in the future will come with standard
fonts [whether built-into ROM, CD-ROM, or optical disk, etc.].
And it is toward the mixed-use multilingual capabilities that efforts
should be made.
The WWW is perfect for mixing text in the case of an html web for
learning a foreign language - the web could provide a *distributed*
learning system where school children access a text, and recieve
instruction in various languages - a mixed characterset environment -
whereby children can learn russian in a web environment that can handle
English and Russian.
Or a system where American archeologists studying Chinese pottery can
catalogue data in both Chinese and English.
The need for mixed character sets is valid and much work needs to
be done!
jim
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 22:05:25 PST
Subject: [www-mling,00169] Re: Unicode has since included all the Kanji! (fwd)
Message-Id: <95Jan10.220537pst.2760@golden.parc.xerox.com>
Please, can we not bring *that* discussion to *this* list? The issue of
"completeness of Unicode" has been beaten to death on too many mailing
lists, and destroyed a number of them.
I'll pretend like it didn't happen, if you will too...
From: dank@alumni.caltech.edu (Daniel R. Kegel)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 14:02:37 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [www-mling,00168] Re: Unicode has since included all the Kanji! (fwd)
Message-Id: <199501102202.OAA29906@alumni.caltech.edu>
Forwarded message:
Return-Path: casey@singapore.ml.com Mon Jan 9 22:11:15 1995
To: dank@alumni.caltech.edu (Daniel R. Kegel)
From: casey@singapore.ml.com (Casey Wong)
Subject: Re: Unicode has since included all the Kanji!
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 14:11:34
cc: casey@singapore.ml.com
Message-ID: <casey.2.000E31D4@singapore.ml.com>
In article <3eg0is$hs6@gap.cco.caltech.edu> dank@alumni.caltech.edu (Daniel R. K
egel) writes:
>From: dank@alumni.caltech.edu (Daniel R. Kegel)
>Subject: Re: Unicode has since included all the Kanji!
>Date: 5 Jan 1995 05:37:32 GMT
>yasuoka@kudpc.kyoto-u.ac.jp (Koichi Yasuoka) writes:
>>For example, let's consider to write the following sentence.
>> ;''''''''; , ;'''''''';
>> ; ;''''; '; ;''''; ;
>>,,,;,,,;,,,,;,,, '; ,,;' ,,,;,,,,;,,,;,,,
>>; ,,,,,,,,,, ; ';,;'' ; ,,,,,,,,,, ;
>> ;,,,,,,,,; ,;' ;,,,,,,,,;
>> ;,,,,,,,,; ;' ;,,,,,,,,;
>> ; ; ;, ; ;
>> ; ,,; '''''''''' ; ,,;
>>We cannot write this sentence only in JISX0208, because the rightmost
>>character (Chinese "bone") is not included in JIS. And we cannot write
>>this sentence only in GB2312, because the leftmost character (Japanese
>>"bone") is not in the GB. However we can write this sentence in the
>>combination of JIS and GB as following.
>> ESC $ B 9 | $ H ESC $ A 9 G ESC ( B
>>Unicode nowadays inhibits me from distinguishing these two "bone" characters.
I'm Chinese and I've been writing the leftmost "bone" all my life. Are you sure
the rightmost character is a valid Chinese character ??
Just curious :-)
- Casey_Wong@pcmailgw.ml.com
From: bobj@mcom.com (Bob Jung)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 10:19:07 -0800
Subject: [www-mling,00167] Re: httpd support for accept-charset ?
Message-Id: <199501101819.KAA07087@neon.mcom.com>
>I've read the W3 about accept-charset, and was wondering how
>this is supported in httpd. Is it already there, or is there a patch?
It was just a proposal and does not exist. We've modified the proposal
to use
accept-parameter: charset=xxx
-bob
Bob Jung +1 415 528-2688 fax +1 415 254-2601
Netscape Communications Corp. 501 E. Middlefield Mtn View, CA 94041