RE: Component Based Han Ideograph Encoding (WAS: Level of Unicodesupport required for various languages)

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Date: Tue Oct 30 2007 - 08:21:22 CST

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    Quoting Philippe Verdy <verdy_p@wanadoo.fr>:

    >
    > For example, in HTML/XML, you could specify the *intended* rendering of the
    > IDS string using things like:
    >
    > <html
    > xmlns:IDS="http://myids.example.org/schema">
    > <head>
    > <title>Example IDS</title>
    > <style language="text/css">
    > *[IDS:renderAs="IDS"] { font-style: ...; }
    > </style>
    > </head>
    > <body>
    > <p>This paragraph contains some IDS string :
    > <span IDS: renderAs="IDS">(encoded IDS)</span>
    > </p>
    > </body>
    > </html>
    >

    Looks like a good candidate for javascript

    Regards
    John

    > The "(encoded IDS)" string will show uncomposed characters by default,
    > unless the browser is instructed to interpret the IDS schema that indicates
    > its semantic and rendering behaviour. This can be styled as well to specify
    > some fonts supporting the convention (as shown).
    >
    > If the specified IDS schema is not supported, the encoded IDS string will
    > show as a linear list of radicals and IDC symbols.
    >
    > This is exactly the same system that you can use to render mathematical
    > expressions, by specifying a schema, or by creating a custom object where
    > the linear mathematical expression is embedded.
    >

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