Dotted Circle plus Combining Mark as Text

From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham_at_ntlworld.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 00:38:32 +0100

Is a sequence of a U+25CC DOTTED CIRCLE plus a combining mark plain
text? If so, how many dotted circles should appear?

If the sequence is not plain text, what mark-up notations are
available to control the number of dotted circles produced? I
am particularly interested in notation for HTML, e.g. via a style
sheet. Should the sequence instead be treated as a graphic?

This question is prompted by a confused discussion of what the notation
<U+25CC, U+0E31 THAI CHARACTER MAI HAN-AKAT, U+25CC> on a web page
meant. The confusion was caused because some of us saw two dashed
circles and others saw three dashed circles (one for each character)
when viewing the web page.

Richard.
Received on Sat Oct 19 2013 - 18:40:30 CDT

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