From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Fri Jun 10 2005 - 00:41:30 CDT
Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote:
> Unicode sees markup in a HTML file as if it was splitting the rich
> document into many distinct plain-text documents. What these extra
> markup will do is also not specified.
>
> So if you insert markup in the middle of a combining sequence, it is
> no longer a single combining sequence for Unicode. Instead it will be
> seen by Unicode as a document ending with a correct combining
> sequence, and another document starting by a defective combining
> sequence.
I don't believe "Unicode sees" any of this at all. Unicode is a
character encoding standard for plain text. If one wraps plain text in
markup, or (as in this case) weaves the two together, it is up to the
higher-level protocol -- the markup -- to determine how the two
interact.
If we are really talking about how certain rendering engines from
certain vendors display certain sequences, then that might be a markup
issue, or it might be a vendor or implementation issue. But I don't see
it as something over which Unicode, the character encoding standard, has
any control.
These are my opinions only.
-- Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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