- From: <Donna.Worby@dardni.gov.uk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:23:32 +0100
- To: ernestcline@mindspring.com
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
Ernest Cline <ernestcline@mindspring.com>: > I strongly doubt that an 'Mc' character will ever be part of Unicode. > [...] Agreed; aside from anything, 'Mc' is counted as two characters in a name rather than one. > As for the suggestion of including <super>c, I also doubt that Unicode > will include it as Mc, M<sup>c</sup>, and M<sup><u>c</u></sup> are all > variations I've seen of how to present Mc. Applying the correct formatting to the character is not the problem - this markup would only make sense to a visual UA. The superscripted 'c' in this instance has properties as a character, such as the lexical ordering mentioned earlier. I do believe that this 'c' ought to be included in Unicode. > Might I suggest using this: > <abbr title="Mac">Mc</abbr> > since 'Mc' will probably never appear in Unicode unless someone can > provide a more impressive reason than what has neen presented here. For an aural UA, perhaps, but unless an appropriate stylesheet was provided this wouldn't render correctly on a visual device. donna e. donna
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