Re: Language tags (as if there weren't enough to do)

From: Bob Verbrugge (bob_verbrugge@nl.compuware.com)
Date: Fri Oct 02 1998 - 06:34:59 EDT

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Well, why aren't we? Sounds like a good optimization to me!

Bob.

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> From: Michael Everson <everson@indigo.ie>
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> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 01:51:04 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Language tags (as if there weren't enough to do)
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> The following is not my idea. But I like it.
> 
> Why on earth are we using surrogates to access the Outer Planes for
> language tags (reported to be not graphic characters in a rather
> unbelievable trick of thinking) when we could simply code One More Time a
> clone of ASCII in the BMP which could be used for meta-text of any kind?
> 
> Thank you for your attention.
> 
> ME
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