Well, I've experience in using Unicode and not using Unicode, so
I think I have a fair idea of the tradeoffs etc. though every system
*is* different...
>Let's put aside these implementation issues for now. They are
>important, but I think the labelling issue is more important issue for
>us to grapple with now.
I agree. The labelling issue is the last major hole in the
infrastructure. The HTML-on-CDROM problem was one I'd only though
vaguely thought about, possibly because I think there are better
solutions for that media...
Anyway, for internationalisation, I think we need to proceed along
these lines:
1) Get the editorial changes, and SGML changes into the HTML
spec. so that ISO/IEC 10646 is recognised as the document
character set.
2) Solve the labelling problem (or at the very least, offer
guidelines).
3) Start adding support for locale-independent data representations
for measurements etc.
4) Improve browser implementations.