From: John Cowan (cowan@mercury.ccil.org)
Date: Wed Nov 26 2003 - 10:23:22 EST
Peter Kirk scripsit:
> There could of course be
> problems if there were any precomposed combinations of quotes or ">"
> with combining characters, but I don't think there are any, are there?
Just one: U+226F NOT GREATER THAN is canonically equivalent to > followed
by U+0338 COMBINING LONG SOLIDUS OVERLAY. Consequently, applying NF(K)C
to XML/HTML that contains this sequence such that the > is a closing
tag delimiter produces ill-formed XML/HTML. This is considered to be
a corner case, because there is typically no reason to separate U+0338
from whatever it applies to by markup.
This problem is called out in the W3C Character Model draft.
-- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan If a soldier is asked why he kills people who have done him no harm, or a terrorist why he kills innocent people with his bombs, they can always reply that war has been declared, and there are no innocent people in an enemy country in wartime. The answer is psychotic, but it is the answer that humanity has given to every act of aggression in history. --Northrop Frye
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