From: Hans Aberg (haberg@math.su.se)
Date: Tue May 10 2005 - 11:42:16 CDT
At 15:31 +0200 2005/05/10, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote:
> - the first one being the keyboards. With real problems since my
>AZERT keyboard does not support all the legal French characters, so
>I must rely on the goodwill of applications to enter characters
>sequences correctly, what is totally impossible (how do you want a
>program to know that COEUR has a ligature and NOE has not).
This last is essentially a parsing and rendering problem: If COEUR
and NOE can be identified by the context they are in, the correct
semantic information can be attached to them. This semantic
information can then be used to provide a correct rendering. The
problems is similar to the multiple uses of "-", as a number
negation, and a number range which in correct typesetting is rendered
differently. This difference led me to the notion of "input
characters".
-- Hans Aberg
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