- From: Ernest Cline <ernestcline@mindspring.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 18:19:14 -0400
- To: www-html@w3.org
- CC: Michael Day <mikeday@yeslogic.com>, Donna.Worby@dardni.gov.uk
Michael Day wrote: > > Indeed, especially as names beginning with 'Mc' are treated differently > > in a lexical comparison (i.e., they are placed before names beginning > > with 'Ma') - something that would be very difficult to represent with > > markup. > > Good point. So perhaps "Mc" is the character that should exist? > Either way, I don't see a superscript c or a Mc character in UNICODE at > the moment; does anyone know about 4.0 or upcoming versions? I strongly doubt that an 'Mc' character will ever be part of Unicode. The Unicode view is that 'Mc' is what the standard refers to as a grapheme, and as such it should be encoded as two characters 'M' and 'c'. Existing multi-letter characters, sich as 'Dz' were included in Unicode only because they existing in pre-UNICODE character sets and were therefore included in Unicode to facilitate conversion between those character sets and Unicode on a character for character basis. As for the suggestion of including <super>c, I also doubt that Unicode will include it as Mc, M<sup>c</sup>, and M<sup><u>c</u></sup> are all variations I've seen of how to present Mc. Might I suggest using this: <abbr title="Mac">Mc</abbr> since 'Mc' will probably never appear in Unicode unless someone can provide a more impressive reason than what has neen presented here.
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