Re: Don't we need a standard way to represent language in Unicode?

[Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>]

> [ietf-charsets' charter is to decide how best to represent text on
>  the Internet, now that ASCII is no longer enough for most Internet users.
>  Most members of the list seem happy with Unicode.  Mr. Ohta is violently
>  opposed,

What? I just say profiling is necessary.

> and has proposed extending Unicode with several bits *per character*
>  to indicate language.  When that was shot down,

What was shot down? My proposal was welcomed at the Amsterdam IETF
meeting.

> A quick and dirty way to address the problem would be to define a set of 
> control codes as an extension of Unicode to indicate language,

which makes the encoding quite stateful.

> Unless something like this is done in a way that gains at least 
> grudging acceptance in Japan, we may not end up with a truly interoperable
> method of representing text on the Internet!

See RFC1554.

							Masataka Ohta