I said:
>>There are superscript International Phonetic Alphabet characters which were
>>not included to support any particular character sets so far as I know, but
>>phonetic entities like aspiration (h). We (Finland, Norway, Ireland) are
>>preparing a proposal for Finno-Ugric Phonetic Alphabet support which
>contains rather a lot of superscript, subscript, and small-capital
>letters, >and whose semantics are completely different from the plain
>letters, and
>must be distinguished from them in plain text (for lexicographical
>^^^^
>searching, etc.).
Somebody said:
>Why in plain text? This is an obvious application for developing an
>XML tagging scheme or some other form of markup.
It is NOT. Phonetic characters are _characters_. Whether you write McCarthy
or M<sup>c</sup>Carthy may make no difference to the underlying entities
being transcribed, but the same is not true in the FUPA.
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