Re:gemini:// space
by cabalamat on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @02:22AM
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> Lots of documents and books contain passages in other languages, it's reasonably common
Yes they do, and since Gemini allows Unicode, it can cope with this. Note that books typically don't mark what language foreign words/phrases are in.
> But Gemini, at least in theory, is designed to be parseable.
If I was designing Gemini I'd design the source format as something very like Markdown and have it compile to a format which would be a subset of HTML. This would allow <span lang=...> constructs.
Yes they do, and since Gemini allows Unicode, it can cope with this. Note that books typically don't mark what language foreign words/phrases are in.
> But Gemini, at least in theory, is designed to be parseable.
If I was designing Gemini I'd design the source format as something very like Markdown and have it compile to a format which would be a subset of HTML. This would allow <span lang=...> constructs.