[vorbis] UTF8_LANG: a much better idea

[Glenn Maynard]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 08:17:59AM -0800, mike dillon wrote:
> begin Glenn Maynard quotation:
> > It comes down to this: mark the language of text with U+E0001 LANGUAGE
> > TAG, followed by the RFC 3066 language ID (ie. "ja") encoded in
> > lowercase ASCII plus 0xE0000.
> 
> Another thing to mention is that this standard is part of Unicode 3.1,
> which is not widely supported yet, AFAIK. Hopefully, most existing
> Unicode implementations are smart enough to skip over characters in
> planes which they don't implement, which would make the visual result on
> non-supporting platforms the same as not using the tags at all.

The original revision is in
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr7/tr7-1.html, from May 1998.

It's trivial to strip for display, as well.


-- 
Glenn Maynard

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