In a message dated 2001-07-20 6:19:24 Pacific Daylight Time, duerst@w3.org
writes:
> You can find a better way to do furigana, and an answer to many
> of your questions, at http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby (the Ruby Annotation
> Recommendation).
Patrick's original question concerned an undocumented, but arguably legal,
way of using the Unicode interlinear annotation characters.
Martin's response makes it sound as though the annotation characters have the
Plane 14 nature: they were brought into this world with strong warnings never
to use them, but instead to use an equivalent mechanism in HTML, XML, or some
other higher-level protocol.
TUS 3.0 says (p. 326) that the use of annotation characters is "strongly
discouraged without prior agreement between the sender and the receiver." Is
this as strong a statement as the one in Unicode 3.1 concerning language
tags, which states that they are not to be used at all except in the presence
of specific protocols?
I believe Patrick may benefit from an answer to his question about the
Unicode annotation characters, as well as the W3C ruby document.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
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