- From: Chung-Chieh Shan <t-chungs@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 01:04:54 -0700
- To: "'www-html@w3.org'" <www-html@w3.org>
- Cc: "'Kai-hsu Tai'" <kaihsu@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Hello, This is my first post on this list, so please excuse me if it is in any way inappropriate. I am interested in the list of character entities that are/will be included in HTML 3.2. In particular, I am working on computerization of several Taiwanese languages, the romanization of which requires diacritics to be placed over letters such as "m" and "n". Since there are already entities like ´ and ` defined in ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/SGML/ENTITIES/ISOdia, I suppose the only question is whether these entities will be included in HTML 3.2 (I'm actually not absolutely sure that they haven't been included in previous versions; I'd be very happy if they have), and -- if they will -- whether any specific rendering behavior is to be specified by HTML. If it is HTML's responsibility to specify rendering behavior for these entities, I think the logical way to proceed is to follow Unicode's placement of non-spacing marks, i.e., use m´ (rather than ´m) for m with acute above, and so on. If the inclusion of these character entities have not been proposed for HTML 3.2, I would also appreciate advice on how I can make such a proposal. Thanks in advance. -- Ken "The Converter Group in Building 17, a notoriously glum Campus locale" -- Daniel Underwood, in Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
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