Re: undo and combining characters

From: Karl Ove Hufthammer (huftis@bigfoot.com)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 03:10:42 EDT

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    Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com> wrote in
    news:20020425012624.50779.qmail@web9607.mail.yahoo.com:

    > But they're very confusing
    > for both users and developers.
    > For English ligatures (optional ligatures) I would
    > suggest an inline <ligate> tag which would do nothing
    > if put around non-ligatable characters. A <noligate>
    > tag also if we decide to go with an "auto-ligate"
    > option.

    One advantage of using ZWJ/ZWNJ is that they get exported
    correctly automatically when exporting to Unicode-aware
    fileformats. And according to W3C & The Unicode C., they *are*
    suitable for use in markup languages / XML
    <URL: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr20/#Format >. 

    -- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer

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