- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 10:36:48 +0700
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 12:17 20/05/97 -0400, Steven J. DeRose wrote: >If the user interaction model is >that people create links by staring at formatted output and counting glyphs, >of course there's a problem -- but that seems absurd. I agree this is absurd. But the conclusion seems to me to be that either - we don't do character counting, or - we accept that people are going to need tools to be able to create documents that use XML link (or at least this aspect of it): they are not going to be able just to use vi/notepad. >If you count characters of the source content, why won't everyone count them >the same way? The only problem I see would be with a system that silently >"normalized" data somehow, and lost track of what the original data was. I think a system might quite reasonably choose normalize precomposed characters into composite characters or vice-versa, since there's no real difference in the semantics. If I've got a base character followed by a non-spacing character, and the combination of the two is available in Unicode as a precomposed character, and I've got a system that doesn't have the machinery to render non-spacing characters, then it might well be desirable for it to do the precomposition. James
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