RE: Transcoding Tamil in the presence of markup

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 13:22:35 EST

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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]
    On Behalf
    > Of Peter Jacobi

    > As it was possible to style individual characters in legacy encodings
    > (heck, it was possible using a mechanical Tamil typewriter!), what is
    to
    > be done in migration to Unicode?

    There is nothing about encoding of Tamil in Unicode that prevents
    styling of individual characters. This is not a Unicode problem, as (at
    least some) others have said.

     
    > So, I'm still wondering whether Unicode and HTML4 will consider
    > <span style='color:#00f'>&#x0BB2;</span>&#x0BBE;
    > valid and it is the task of the user agent to make the best out of it.

    There is nothing in Unicode that says this is invalid. Unicode's scope
    is plain text; it has nothing to say about HTML.

    Peter
     
    Peter Constable
    Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
    Microsoft Windows Division

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