Re: Underline element.

On Jan 3, 2008, at 21:11, Ca Phun Ung wrote:

> Take the <i> and Ship name example. If a ship name is always  
> italicized in English then it should be underlined in Chinese. So if  
> an English document is translated containing some italicized ship  
> names, <i> will not make sense when translated into Chinese.


English words may not make sense is Chinese. That's the whole point of  
translation. The translation process may quite naturally involve  
changing inline markup to suit the target language when the words  
themselves are changed.

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Henri Sivonen
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Received on Saturday, 5 January 2008 11:18:52 UTC