[I18n-sig] Re: [Python-Dev] Unicode debate

Tom Emerson tree@basistech.com
Mon, 1 May 2000 14:42:40 -0400 (EDT)


Fredrik Lundh writes:
 > ISO-2022-JP includes language/locale information, UTF-8 doesn't.  if
 > you just recode the character codes, you'll lose important information.

So encode them using the Plane 14 language tags.

I won't start with whether language/locale should be encoded in a
character encoding... 8-)

          -tree

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