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Mon May 18 16:12:04 BST 2020
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May 18, 2020 5:36 PM, "defdefred" <defdefred at protonmail.com> wrote:
No need to be in only one language, UTF-8 is able to do all language in in the same document!
no, that's not the pointthe point is, as stated before, allowing screen-readers and search engines to properly read the documents, and for allowing languages that render in a different direction to do so (like right-to left languages, or vertical writing), if you search "pain" you probably don't want to see a french page about making bread, if you read an icelandic page as english with TTS (such as those who're visually impaired might do), it will sound like absolute nonsense, etc...
utf-8 takes care of glyphs, but several things require knowing the language to work.
(while at it, a language code such as "zxx", the code for things known not to be in ANY language, should be supported, and used for things like ascii/unicode art)