From: Mike Ayers (mike.ayers@tumbleweed.com)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 17:01:34 EST
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
> Behalf Of Alexander Savenkov
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 11:25 AM
> That is arguable. An aural user agent could pronounce "1, 2, 3" a bit
> different from "1, 2, 3" if there is a (say) thin space between the
> digits in the latter case. It could pronounce it quicker, for example.
It *could* do that, but, frankly, that would be a bad idea. Speech
synthesis devices have enough trouble with plain text as it is - adding
special interpretation for neo-markup characters would just make things
worse. This belongs in the realm of (surprise!) markup.
This seems to be international let's-merge-markup-into-plaintext
month.
/|/|ike
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