Re: Coloured diacritics (Was: Transcoding Tamil in the presence of markup)

From: jon@hackcraft.net
Date: Tue Dec 09 2003 - 08:13:19 EST

  • Next message: Philippe Verdy: "RE: Coloured diacritics (Was: Transcoding Tamil in the presence of markup)"

    > So, let's get this clear. Within an XML or HTML document, if I want an e
    > with a red acute accent on it, it is quite permissible to write:
    >
    > e<span class="red-text">{U+0301}</span>
    >
    > where {U+0301} is replaced by the actual Unicode character, and
    > "red-text" is defined in the stylesheet. So it is not a problem that
    > there is a defective combining sequence, nor that the accent is not
    > combined with the e as it would be in NFC. Is that correct?

    You can, whether you should is another thing, and whether it would render
    correctly yet another. 

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