From: Peter Kirk (peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com)
Date: Mon Aug 11 2003 - 13:58:49 EDT
On 11/08/2003 06:59, Jon Hanna wrote:
>There are only two theoretical problems that I can see here, the first is
>that a whitespace character other than space gets converted to space by
>attribute value normalisation, and that this changes the meaning of the text
>in some way. This could only occur if the combining character were the first
>character in a line of text, which is quite a nonsensical construct to begin
>with.
>
>
Not at all! Imagine a tutorial on a language, which might well list the
accents used, in a format like this:
` (grave accent) is used with a, e and o, and indicates more open
pronunciation
^ (circumflex accent) is used with any vowel, and indicates lengthening
So far so good, but when I get to an accent with no predefined spacing
variant, I have a problem!
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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