Re: more xhtml 2.0 comments from Donna.Worby@dardni.gov.uk on 2003-04-17 (www-html@w3.org from April 2003)

From: <Donna.Worby@dardni.gov.uk>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 11:04:10 +0100
To: mikeday@yeslogic.com
Cc: www-html@w3.org
Message-Id: <H000294b01696b62.1050573848.petit.dani.gov.uk@MHS>

> > The superscripted c is as much a part of the correct spelling of my 
name
> > as the capital F is.
> 
> Surely in this case the superscript c belongs in UNICODE as a 
legitimate
> character that you could use for this purpose. (Since it truly is a
> character of your name, not merely a presentational effect).

Indeed, especially as names beginning with 'Mc' are treated differently 
in a lexical comparison (i.e., they are placed before names beginning 
with 'Ma') - something that would be very difficult to represent with 
markup.


donna

Received on Thursday, 17 April 2003 06:07:43 UTC