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

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From: Philippe Verdy [mailto:verdy_p@wanadoo.fr]

>> I see no particular value in this. The font rendering of <span>base
>> diacritic</span> should be exactly the same as that for
>> <span>base</span><span>diacritic</span> provided the font
>> characteristics are the same or do not affect metrics.
>
>This is wrong here: there's no guarantee offered by HTML...

My comment was intended to be referring to generic markup, not
specifically HTML.

Peter
 
Peter Constable
Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies
Microsoft Windows Division

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