From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 11:04:50 EDT
Tex Texin scripsit:
> An author of a primarily Japanese document could choose not to tag
> Chinese text as Chinese, and so get a Japanese rendering of the text,
> but that could hurt search engines or other applications that use
> language tags for purposes other than rendering...
Indeed, indeed. Tagging (even implicit tagging) with a false language is
a very bad idea.
> So I stick with the
> idea that text should be tagged with language appropriately, and a user
> that reads Japanese and prefers to see Chinese text with Japanese glyphs
> have the ability to override the language tags to affect rendering.
The trouble is that that's the default for a Japanese reader reading
mixed-language text. No override should be required.
> I can't say if "typographical tradition preference" (TTP) is the correct
> term for "language preference". (I figure I got into enough trouble
> using "typographically correct".) I hope the discussion above was clear
> enough. I'll let others comment on TTP, and if there is general
> agreement that it is a better and more precise and accurate term, I am
> fine with it.
My point was that it's one thing to want Chinese text displayed with
Japanese glyphs, based on a typographical-tradition preference, and it's
another thing to want the text in a Japanese-language version,
which is what setting a "language preference" would suggest.
> I am not familiar enough with Fraktur and Antiqua to
> knowledgably comment. From what little I do know this seems to require
> more than language information to decide between them.
Absolutely. The analogy is that Fraktur is quite, or nearly, illegible if
all you know how to read is Antiqua (which looks like what you are seeing
now, ordinary Latin-script type). This makes the difference greater than a
mere font difference.
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John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
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