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SubjectRe: unicode (char as abstract data type)


On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Greg Lee wrote:

> > If "they" are Unicode, they just demonstrated complete lack of any clue
> > in the matter and ignored a cornerstone issue of linguistics. ...
>
> Language or dialect determination is hardly an important issue in
> linguistics (if that's what you mean), since the prevalent view
> of language system is that it is psychological, rather than cultural
> or social. Identification of dialect is a political issue.

Distinction between Russian and Ukrainian language is hardly an
important issue in linguistics?

> What is an issue for linguists is how to cite many languages in
> a document or on screen, where there may be no unique standard
> orthographies, or where citation is phonetic, or according to some
> arbitrary standard of a certain reference work, or ...
>
> 256 characters is not enough. Tagging strings is appropriate only
> in special circumstances which are often not present in texts
> linguists have to deal with.

What 256 characters? In what case linguists deal with text and avoid
to determine its language?

--
Alex


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