Re: Combining across markup? (Was: RE: sign for anti-neutrino - g ree k nu with diacritical line aboveworkaround ?)

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Tue Aug 10 2004 - 13:39:48 CDT

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    On 10/08/2004 17:13, Jon Hanna wrote:

    > ...
    >
    >Contra to your examples, what is a parser meant to do when it encounters the
    >greater-than symbol indicating the end of an element's tag followed by a
    >combining solidus, meaning that the two characters together are canonically
    >equivalent to the not greater-than symbol?
    >
    >
    >
    That one is easy: this is the closing tag followed by a combining
    solidus. The difficult case is if the parser encounters a not greater
    than symbol. The parser will need to know to decompose such characters
    first, but then a good parser would always need to do that.

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    Peter Kirk
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