- From: Jon Hanna <jon@spinsol.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 20:32:35 -0000
- To: "wai-ig list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Why? To what end? That is the question you always need to start > with. What is the purpose of these greek letters? Agreed. I'm not sure of the answer for all possible scenarios, but Greek should be written in Greek, using either Unicode or a standard Greek character set (if only because writing large amounts any other way will drive you mad, so you'd need to write something to transliterate for you). If you do use entities be aware that some of the mathematical symbols are not the same entities as the Greek letters that share the same glyph, e.g. Σ is a capital sigma, but ∑ is a sum, even though they normally look the same. In theory at least (and perhaps someone can fill us in on the practice) screen readers could pronounce Σ "sigma" or "capital sigma" if standing alone, or as part of a Greek word. ∑ would be pronounced "sum of" or "sum". Out of interest, could someone tell me if all screen-readers pronounce "&99;&97;&116;" as "cat"? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPGQ13YFpv9f1Mr0YEQLiVACfSO1GCD4q8RSwEdastBN49UH+AO8AoIuI Ka3yKQDEoBGBII0fu4JbDP44 =OH0G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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