- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:32:31 +0000 (UTC)
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Kristof Zelechovski wrote: > > If there is a character set that sports both, it must be used to put > down some human language. My point there is no language that could make > use of this distinction by having both ü and &utrema;. There are > languages that use ü and theoretically there could be ones that use > &utrema;, although I do not know of any valid case (I consider the > French case invalid). On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Kristof Zelechovski wrote: > > A stressed schwa is present in Polish maritime dialect as well (Kasz?bszczi) > and Slovaks write "m?so" for "miaso" (meat), but that is not the point. All > such uses can be covered under the hood of the dieresis; I only want the > true umlaut to be distinct, not as a code point but as an entity name. On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, K?i?tof ?elechovski wrote: > > Could I have an example of &otrema; please? Something along the lines > of zo?logy, but actually required? Not that I doubt your knowledge of > Dutch but I would like to have it as a demonstration. Chris This is all academic. HTML is based on Unicode, Unicode doesn't distinguish these characters. Also, we can't change the entity name, we would just be adding a redundant character that doesn't work in older UAs. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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