From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Mon Mar 14 2011 - 08:01:03 CST
Asmus Freytag <asmusf at ix dot netcom dot com> wrote:
> Ordinary text (a random paragraph) is not usually case transformed
> at all. There's little payoff for anyone to mark up text with this
> information, then.
Plain text is one of the most versatile data formats around. It can be
very hard to predict, for a given sample of "ordinary" text, whether
somebody will come along and want to collate it, spell-check it, convert
it to upper or lower or title case, or turn it into purple-and-pink
WordArt® with drop shadows and daisies surrounding it.
QSJN 4 UKR's original use case (see
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2011-m02/0067.html) seemed
to apply to any arbitrary text passage, not just headers and such.
Maybe I didn't understand what he was getting at.
Markup that can seldom be counted on to be available is not much
different from no markup at all. It would be similar to the way Mark
Davis has described Google's use of meta-charset attributes in content
found on the Web: ignore the attribute because it can't be trusted, and
apply heuristics instead.
-- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA | http://www.ewellic.org RFC 5645, 4645, UTN #14 | ietf-languages @ is dot gd slash 2kf0s
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