I have been happily using Arabic, Persian, and Turkish as values in DC Title, Creator, etc. with no sense that this might be a problem provided these are stored in a 32-bit table. I would be glad to know if anyone thinks otherwise.
Howard Batchelor
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----- Original Message -----
From: Liddy Nevile <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, June 3, 2004 4:44 pm
Subject: Re: How to contain semantic formatting in DC title
> I think that what you have done with ComplexCreator is a hack that a
> lot of people have worked with in a variety of ways - and it is
> nice in
> DC. But I also think that as we now have proper markup languages for
> such things as maths, chemistry etc, we should start to use them
> in our
> DC values - although I do not know all the problems associated with
> doing that.
>
> Could we continue work on this more in DC Internationalisation WG, as
> that is the place it fits best at the moment and it might not disturb
> the whole DC community??? I am trying to find out more about languages
> including symbolic and minority ones, and would really like this
> discussion to be continued to a conclusion!...
>
> Some may think it is a discussion that relates more to things like how
> do you introduce structure in so you can have names in various parts,
> but I think that is a different issue.
>
> Liddy
>
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