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Re: Re: Support for Internationalized Explanations

2004-07-27 13:56:53
"Koen Martens" commented:

On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:19:18PM +0100, Chris Haynes wrote:
 It's my belief that the recipient is the only person who can decide which
language is the appropriate one to use for the explanation sent to her
'legitimate' senders.  Restricting the character set to US-ASCII effectively
restricts the language choice to English - a minority language when assessed
globally.

Of course, by choosing UTF-8, you ignore the fact that there are big languages
that >can not be expressed in UTF-8 (Russian, Korean, Chinese, ....). So while
it servers >your purposes, what does it solve on the grander scheme??


I beg to differ.

Here http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html#glass  is a sampler, showing a
test phrase phrase in more than 100 languages and dialects, including Russian
(and 5 other Cyrillic-based languages ), Korean and two Chinese scripts..

The only unsupported scripts which The Unicode Consortium admit to are:
Balinese
Javanese
Manipuri (Meithei, Kanglei)
Moso (Naxi)
N'ko (Mandekan)
New Tai Lue
Pahawh Hmong
Rong (Lepcha)
Siloti Nagri (Syloti Nagri)
Tai Mau
Tifinagh (Berber)

(From http://www.unicode.org/standard/unsupported.html ).


Of course not every browser / MUA may be up-to-date with all the glyphs - but
that's not a UTF-8 restriction.

Chris