Re: The result of the plane 14 tag characters review.

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 09:25:21 EST

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    On 11/12/2002 11:50:51 PM "Doug Ewell" wrote:

    >1. What extra processing is necessary to interpret Plane 14 tags that
    >wouldn't be necessary to interpret any other form of tags?

    Obviously, extra processing is needed either way.

    >2. What extra processing is necessary to ignore Plane 14 tags that
    >wouldn't be necessary to ignore any other Unicode character(s)?

    None. And if some form of light-weight markup were used, then there would
    inevitably be a need for some kind of character escape mechanism, so
    ignoring language tagging would still entail interpreting of the escapes.
    E.g.

    #LT=en#This is English text, #LT=fr# et ce texte ci est en français.
    #LT=en#To use the pound character in text, as in "He's in room ##4," you
    have to encode it twice.

    >3. Is there any method of tagging, anywhere, that is lighter-weight
    >than Plane 14?

    None that I can think of.

    >Corollary: Is "lightweight" important?

    Is this a corollary? It may be the crux of the issue. Tags using plane 14
    characters may be the lightest mechanism around, but does anybody actually
    need to avoid markup that badly?

    - Peter

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