Re: [Ltru] Re: [psg.com #951] extensibility via codes not maintained by ISO

[Erkki Kolehmainen <erkki.kolehmainen at kotus.fi>]

I'd like to comment on the need to know the script. The end user needs 
this information, in order to determine whether she or he is able to 
even recognize the characters used in the text, particularly if the 
orthographies of a given language provide for several scripts to choose 
from. Also, for many of the lesser known languages, the end user may not 
even be aware of the one and only script. The end user can only get the 
information if it is available for the browser. (In my book, UTF-8 can 
never be characterized as a script).

Erkki I. Kolehmainen

JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:

> On 17:19 11/05/2005, John Cowan said:
>
> > JFC (Jefsey) Morfin scripsit:
> >
> > > Most of the used charsets (sorry, "scripts") in use and part of the
> > > Internet world are not documented by ISO 19524.
> >
> > Charsets and scripts are distinct concepts.  Charsets are encodings of
> > characters into octets.  Scripts are collections of characters used in
> > writing systems, and have no connection with encoding.  ISO 8859-1 and
> > Win-1252 are charsets.  Latin, Greek, and Cherokee are scripts.
>
>
> Frank documented what you can do with this mental twist. Scripts are 
> named in ISO 15924 ane are collections of characters documented in ISO 
> 10646 with their digital value. Charsets are collections of characters 
> with their digital encoding, which can be documented in various ISO or 
> non ISO documents like ISO 10646, ISO 8859-1, etc. Default Internet 
> charset is the UTF-8 global script.
>
> Anyway, non of them gives me a correct French keyboard :-)
>
> As long as I have not one, and all the people of the world do not have a 
> collections of characters to produce a keyboard respecting their 
> language, I am sorry but all this will call for more than a mental twist 
> to satisfies me.
>
> BTW , I always wander (and nobody answered) what is going to be the use 
> for your browser to know the name of the Script? Will it tell you "Hi! 
> John, you entered Mongolian script", or will it call a collection of 
> digital records to do someting with them? Or is it just for statistics?
>
> jfc



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