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

From: Peter Jacobi (peter_jacobi@gmx.net)
Date: Tue Dec 09 2003 - 08:47:43 EST

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    Hi Peter, All,

    Peter Kirk <peterkirk@qaya.org> wrote:
    > [...]
    > [About e<span class="red-text">&#x0301;</span> being correct HTML}
    > [...]
    > If this is correct, then the Tamil problem which Peter J is concerned
    > about has gone away completely, or at least it is reduced to a tricky
    > rendering issue.

    Jungshik and Martin already voted, that
      <span style='color:#00f'>&#x0BB2;</span>&#x0BC6;
    is perfectly valid HTML, and I assume the same holds for
      &#x0BB2;<span style='color:#00f'>&#x0BC6;</span>

    But, seeing real-life user agents mishandle this, and being
    confronted with task of writing a converter from legacy
    Tamil encodings (in visual order), there is some temptation
    to markup this as:
      {INV}&#x0BC6;<span style='color:#00f'>&#x0BB2;</span>
    or respectively
      <span style='color:#00f'>{INV}&#x0BC6;</span>&#x0BB2;

    With {INV} being the hypothetical, not-spacing-adding, invisible
    consonant.

    But
    a) {INV} doesn't exist (so far)
    and
    b) The user agents I tested render {SPACE}&#x0BC6;
    with the misguided dotted circle.

    So, I can easily withstand this temptation (for now).

    Regards,
    Peter Jacobi

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