Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-text] cursive shaping breaks and typographic characters from r12a via GitHub on 2018-11-14 (public-css-archive@w3.org from November 2018)

From: r12a via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 09:11:12 +0000
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> you’re going to have a bad time because of Unicode normalization, the ccmp feature, and compound glyphs.

For ligatures and certain compounds i understand that this can become difficult, but i don't want to close out the possibility of allowing mark highlighting where it _can_ be useful.

Sure, there are things that are more difficult, and my assumption is that content authors are not likely to try mark colouring in those situations. But highlighting signs as shown here for devanagari is not an extraordinary ask, and should continue to be feasible, given an appropriate font:

![screen shot 2018-11-12 at 16 25 02](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4839211/48360618-888a1100-e697-11e8-973b-7f01e42ae63a.png)

![screen shot 2018-11-12 at 16 26 39](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4839211/48360745-cbe47f80-e697-11e8-9695-3b669cd2be4e.png)

Basically, i want to avoid throwing out the baby with the bath water.

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