Re: ISO 15924: Different Arabic scripts?

From: YAO Jiankang (ietf@cdnc.org)
Date: Thu Nov 24 2005 - 22:01:19 CST

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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Simon Montagu" <smontagu@smontagu.org>
    To: "Andreas Prilop" <nhtcapri@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de>
    Cc: <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 5:10 AM
    Subject: Re: ISO 15924: Different Arabic scripts?

    > Andreas Prilop wrote:
    > > When an HTML document is encoded in UTF-8, we can specify only
    > > by lang=zh-CN or lang=zh-TW
    > > whether a program should display it in Simplified or
    > > Traditional Chinese typeface. Mozilla-based browsers do this.
    > > A better, more logical way is by
    > > lang=zh-Hans or lang=zh-Hant
    > > I'm not sure whether the latest Mozilla browsers already
    > > support this.
    >
    > They support both ways.
    >

    It is better that IANA can register some language code such as "Han" which include both "zh-Hans" and "zh-Hant" characters for benefits of chinese users.

    Yao Jiankang



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