Peter Jacobi <peter underscore jacobi at gmx dot net> wrote: > Some tests: In Mozilla 1.4.1 the characters fall apart and in IE5.5 > the style expands to the entire orthographic syllable. > Unicode test page: http://www.jodelpeter.de/i18n/tamil/markup-uc.htm > TSCII test page: http://www.jodelpeter.de/i18n/tamil/markup-tscii.htm
BTW, your "Unicode test page" is marked: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> while your TSCII test page is marked "x-user-defined". I'm not sure what either of those declarations accomplishes. > After seeing this effect at its source, it's now clear why you can't > style individual Tamil characters in a word processor, when using > Unicode (whereas you can do so, in legacy encodings). This is browser behavior, not word processor behavior, and certainly not an inherent defect in the Unicode logical-order model. Display engines need to do a better job of applying style to individual reordrant glyphs, that's all. > It's hard to promote Unicode, when things that have worked in the > past, stop working. This is alarmist and unnecessary. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
