Encoding scripts in tags: evil or just unpleasant?
Michael Everson
everson at evertype.com
Fri May 23 03:25:24 CEST 2003
Serbian, Croatian, and Bosnian are, linguistically speaking, closely
related dialects of the same language. We've got three codes for them
now, and Bosnian was totally political, and now how many more do you
want? Let's say they can ALL be written in two scripts. Shall we add
six more codes to the three we already have?
I thought we did not wish to encode duplicates and redundancies.
More and more I go back to the original thought: 15924 codes should
be applied in some kind of script tag rather than trying to conflate
all this stuff in a language tag, and there should be an RFC to
specify script tagging. Then languages would be identified as
languages and orthographies would be orthogonal to that.
Wrong? Possibly. But I want to know that everybody think this RFC is
for precisely this thing because I am not sure of that.
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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