> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Peter Jacobi
> As it was possible to style individual characters in legacy encodings > (heck, it was possible using a mechanical Tamil typewriter!), what is to > be done in migration to Unicode? There is nothing about encoding of Tamil in Unicode that prevents styling of individual characters. This is not a Unicode problem, as (at least some) others have said. > So, I'm still wondering whether Unicode and HTML4 will consider > <span style='color:#00f'>ல</span>ா > valid and it is the task of the user agent to make the best out of it. There is nothing in Unicode that says this is invalid. Unicode's scope is plain text; it has nothing to say about HTML. Peter Peter Constable Globalization Infrastructure and Font Technologies Microsoft Windows Division