fantasai wrote: > Here's another wrench to throw into the cogwork: what if I serve up > text where each combining character is wrapped in a <span>? > ummm, haven't tried that, but even without normalisation issues, may cause display issues. suspect the font rendering system/text layout in the browser would break, just a guess would need to test. At the very least a developer or graphic designer would need to take a lot of care about cascade affects wrt font declarations ;) but then care is needed with any font declaration involving combining diacritics. -- Andrew Cunningham Senior Manager, Research and Development Vicnet State Library of Victoria 328 Swanston Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Ph: +61-3-8664-7430 Fax: +61-3-9639-2175 Email: andrewc@vicnet.net.au Alt email: lang.support@gmail.com http://home.vicnet.net.au/~andrewc/ http://www.openroad.net.au http://www.vicnet.net.au http://www.slv.vic.gov.auReceived on Tuesday, 3 February 2009 02:18:58 GMT
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