Solving the UTF-8 problem

[Doug Ewell]

CE Whitehead <cewcathar at hotmail dot com> apparently wrote, underneath 
a thick HTML wrapper:

>> One more argument: All of Wikipedia is UTF-8.  If you need to look up 
>> the name of a language, dialect or script there, you can cut and 
>> paste the names directly, whether it is Faroese (føroyskt), Greek 
>> (ελληνική γλώσσα), Hebrew (עברית), or Japanese (日本語).
>
> That is a good argument; people can do the same at our list then; but 
> I hope we will do all we can to accomodate those without the fonts.

Please get over the font issue.  The overwhelming majority of characters 
in the Registry are LATIN and are included in the WGL4 set.  Almost all 
of these are in the Latin-1 set.  If you can't read UTF-8 on your 
machine, it is probably because you don't have software that understands 
the encoding, not because of fonts.

> Doug said 
> (http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2007-July/006791.html) 
> that he could  "see posting a "reduced value" hex-NCR version of the 
> Registry, and" [also] ". . . see posting an informative link to a 
> tutorial site" [for using utf-8 and the fonts}--which will be fine for 
> me!

You ignored the other 99% of my post, which opposed making the 
language-tag site into a "UTF-8 For Dummies" classroom, just to put that 
one quote in.

Stéphane can post whatever he likes on his informative Web site, 
including an unofficial Registry in hex NCRs or other encodings.

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