From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 10:11:09 CST
Charles Lindsey wrote:
> In <3E6CC144.60904@Sonietta.blilly.com> Bruce Lilly <blilly@erols.com> writes:
>>We're discussing text message header fields, not HTML. ...
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> If it is legitimate for the standards which define HTML to permit the RFC
> 3066 language tags to be expressed in UTF-16, then it must be legitimate
> for the Netnews standard to express those same tags in the Unicode
> plane 14 characters expressly designed for that very purpose.
Your argument seems to be "if milk must be pasteurized, then coffee must
be decaffienated". HTML language tags in fact use the 3066/IANA/ISO codes
directly, not via some mapping. E.g.:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
>>That mapping and subsequent encoding is the problem, because
>>it makes the language tag inaccessible.
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> And in fact undoing that mapping consists simply of masking the characters
> with 0x7F.
The problem is that if the charset is unsupported by the recipient, one
cannot even *get to* the mapping to undo it.