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

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 14:41:36 EST

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    On 08/12/2003 10:16, Peter Jacobi wrote:

    >...
    >So, to promote Unicode usage, in a community, which partly sees
    >ISCII unification as a conspiracy against the Dravidian languages,
    >it would be very helpful to demonstrate, that everything that can
    >be done with the legacy encodings, can also be done using Unicode.
    >
    >
    I thought this had been made clear. This is not a matter for Unicode as
    Unicode does not define character styles. It is not a matter for legacy
    encodings either unless they define character styles. It is a matter for
    higher level protocols. You need to address your comments to those who
    define them.

    Unicode in fact makes deliberate provision for inserting markup within
    combining character sequences by not forbidding defective combining
    sequences. If particular markup protocols refuse to use this provision,
    that is their problem.

    >The most useful answers so far, were the assertions by Jungshik, Bruno
    >and others, that the markup in
    > http://www.jodelpeter.de/i18n/tamil/markup-uc.htm
    >should be considered correct and, in an ideal user agent,
    >render like the the TSCII encoded
    > http://www.jodelpeter.de/i18n/tamil/markup-tscii.htm
    >
    >
    These may be useful to you but anything about markup is irrelevant to
    Unicode.

    -- 
    Peter Kirk
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    peterkirk@qaya.org (work)
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