Re: Accented variables (names)

Simon,

Thanks as ever for your careful analysis of the DTD.

> 1) The list contains 5 combining characters, because there are no spacing
> alternatives. Following David Carlisle's suggestion, the combining accents
> are preceded by a ZERO WIDTH SPACE character.

Hm yes I suspect that We should follow that suggestion in the main
mathml dtd, I'll take this up with the WG.

I note that the charmod document got updated last week
and it is more explict that W3C full normalisation means that combining
characters shouldn't be used directly following markup:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-charmod-20030822/#sec-Restrictions
> Full-normalization prevents the use of entities for expressing
> composing characters... 

David




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Received on Tuesday, 2 September 2003 08:34:23 UTC