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Re:UTF-8 is a brilliant design by eviks on Saturday September 13, 2025 @01:34PM (#45233810)
Why is the language tag not used to signal a variant?
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Re:UTF-8 is a brilliant design by jabedude on Sunday September 14, 2025 @10:40AM (#45240090)
That doesn't help in a mixed Chinese-Japanese document
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Re:UTF-8 is a brilliant design by eviks on Sunday September 14, 2025 @10:42AM (#45240109)
Why not? You don't have a single tag limit per document and can tag every mixed part with the appropriate language
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Re:UTF-8 is a brilliant design by jabedude on Monday September 15, 2025 @11:30AM (#45250879)
That's not the only granularity of mixed text. A Chinese textbook about the Japanese language will have sentences where the languages are mixed
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Re:UTF-8 is a brilliant design by eviks on Monday September 15, 2025 @11:35AM (#45250957)
You still haven't explained what the issue is

Chinese textbook: <ch>Chinese <jp>Mixed Japanese</jp> continue Chinese.</ch>

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