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eviks
3 months ago
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UTF-8 is a brilliant design
Why is the language tag not used to signal a variant?
jabedude
3 months ago
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That doesn't help in a mixed Chinese-Japanese document
eviks
3 months ago
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Why not? You don't have a single tag limit per document and can tag every mixed part with the appropriate language
jabedude
3 months ago
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That's not the only granularity of mixed text. A Chinese textbook about the Japanese language will have sentences where the languages are mixed
eviks
3 months ago
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You still haven't explained what the issue is
Chinese textbook: <ch>Chinese <jp>Mixed Japanese</jp> continue Chinese.</ch>
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