Pavel Machek:
> Hi!
>
> > Helvetica is a font. Russian is a language. koi8 is a charset. Fonts are
> > irrelevant, but languages must be preserved for any sane
> > internationalization. And since labeling of languages automatically
> > provides a way to label charsets, there is no need in messy Unicode.
>
> Really, you can not determine charset from language - because language
> of *my* emails is sometimes something between czech and english. And
Right. Just ask any Japanese person. Besides, standardizing the labels of
languages is a very difficult political problem; for purposes of display the
language of the displayed text is irrelevant; for real text processing,
multilingual or not, you need more than what a character set _or_ a
language label can provide anyway.
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