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Re: Non-ASCII hdrs

1991-10-21 13:49:59
I have given Ran a description of the work offline.
Some general comments:

  It seems to me that there is still a gaping chasm (though Keld does
seem to be working hard to close it) between the mnemonic
representation and a useful representation.  I remain skeptical that
the gap can be narrowed sufficiently to make mnemonic really useful in
the CJK area.  The lack of a 1-1 mapping between mnemonic's
romanisation and the character is very serious and it is not clear how
that is ever going to be closed.  (This ignores the fact that many
Chinese users, especially native speakers, have much difficulty
transforming romanisation into characters.)

To me the JISC/ISO naming is still the most official and
versatile naming, and the other namings are not currently making
their way into the mnemonic spec. I think mnemonic is better
than quoted-printable or base64 which are the other candidates
for a fallback representation for unextended HW/SW.
I do not regard 2022 encoding as a fallback - it is the full thing
and the best indeed to handle the requirements. But if it is not present
we need a faalback notation.

Keld

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