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

From: Mike Ayers (mike.ayers@tumbleweed.com)
Date: Mon Aug 09 2004 - 12:30:02 CDT

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    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
    > [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Peter Jacobi
    > Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 9:19 AM

    > "Raymond Mercier" <RaymondM@compuserve.com> wrote:
    > > <span lang=EN-GB >&#x3bd;</span><span lang=EN-GB
    > > style='font-family:Cardo'>&#x304;</span>
    > [doesn't work in Mozilla]
    >
    > We had at least two lengthy threads on this, if I remember right:
    > "Coloured Diacritics"
    > "Rendering Tamil in the presence of markup"
    >
    > Mozilla, and lots of other software can't handle mixing
    > markup and combining marks or characters.

            Hmmm... Don't want to start a war, but I do have to ask.

            Isn't this correct behavior? Doesn't the code above explicitly
    separate the two codepoints to prevent them from being rendered as a
    sequence? I mean, if I wanted to display nu, then macron, without combining
    behavior, wouldn't this be one way to do it? Combining across markup seems
    counterintuitive (and a violation of layering) to me.

            Thanks,

    /|/|ike

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