Re: 10646, and all that

> In other words, the differences are still graphic.
Text is graphic. Text is visual media.

If you display 'D' with graphical shape of greek capital alphabet
of delta, it is incorrect, isn't it?

> > Strange. Why can't you cite some text, then?
> I'm sorry; I had no text to cite.  I have only a copy of Unicode,
> from which I have cited before and which is irrelevant to exactly
> what ISO-10646 says.  My "assurance" was in the form of mail
> (from Glenn Adams) on a different list, which it would have been
> improper to re-post without permission.  I now have Glenn's
> permission, and will send a copy of his mail to anyone who is
> interested, although it probably won't say much to anyone whose
> mind is already made up on the issue.
Hmmm, you believers of the cult of Unicode follow the blessed words
of High Priest Glenn.

OK, I give you some. As Glenn preached, higher level protocol should
be used for essential distinguishing, Unicode won't be defiled by
doing so. So, accept the fact that some Asian langauges need language
profiling of ISO 10646.

:Message-Id: 
<9204031709(_dot_)AA08576(_at_)sutgate(_dot_)bitnetjp(_dot_)ad(_dot_)jp>
:Date:         Fri, 3 Apr 1992 11:57:26 EST
:From: Glenn Adams <glenn(_at_)ILA(_dot_)COM>
:Subject:      Processing Model

:In my implementation of 10646 and Unicode, I employ out-of-band tags (markers)
:which specify the LANGUAGE and ORTHOGRAPHY of the represented text.  Then
:during rendering (and other) processing, the system uses these tags to
:conditionally process the text according to the requirements of the language
:and/or orthography.

:Message-Id: 
<9204070707(_dot_)AA19279(_at_)sutgate(_dot_)bitnetjp(_dot_)ad(_dot_)jp>
:Date:         Mon, 6 Apr 1992 23:28:31 EDT
:From: Glenn Adams <glenn(_at_)ILA(_dot_)COM>
:Subject:      Processing Model

:   >> tag plain text with a LANGUAGE and/or ORTHOGRAPHY
:   .......
:
:   Your explanations says only that there is no way to distinguish them.
:
:No.  It says something outside the character set distinguishs them.
:Character Set != I18N
:
:   Under normal usage, such distinguishing is essential.
:
:Use higher level protocol.  Develop language/orthograph tagging
:standard.  Don't impose this unnecessarily on character set encoding.
:
:   Don't forget that codeset is used as itself for data exchange.
:
:Other things can be included - language tags.

                                                Masataka Ohta