From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2005 - 10:12:52 CST
> From: Patrick Andries [mailto:patrick.andries@xcential.com]
> >No negative impact? You want every Serbian user to have to enter
> >variation selectors when they type a Cyrillic "t" so that it will
> >display correctly if at some point it is set in italic? Or to
remember
> >to enter the variation selector if they format it in italics?
> >
> I'm not really interested in the Serbian case, but the more general
> question.
>
> Couldn't [Serbian here] keyboard drivers generate a <variation
selector
> + key> if **need** be ?
The fact that they *could* doesn't change the reality that they
currently *don't*. Serbians will end up with a hodgepodge of
inconsistent data being fed by inconsistent solutions.
IMO, this should be addressed as a font and markup/styling problem, not
as a character representation problem.
Peter Constable
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