Re: Coloured diacritics (Was: Transcoding Tamil in the presence of markup)

[Peter Jacobi]

Hi Peter, All,

Peter Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
> [About e<span class="red-text">&#x0301;</span> being correct HTML}
> [...]
> If this is correct, then the Tamil problem which Peter J is concerned 
> about has gone away completely, or at least it is reduced to a tricky 
> rendering issue.

Jungshik and Martin already voted, that 
  <span style='color:#00f'>&#x0BB2;</span>&#x0BC6;
is perfectly valid HTML, and I assume the same holds for
  &#x0BB2;<span style='color:#00f'>&#x0BC6;</span>

But, seeing real-life user agents mishandle this, and being
confronted with task of writing a converter from legacy
Tamil encodings (in visual order), there is some temptation
to markup this as:
  {INV}&#x0BC6;<span style='color:#00f'>&#x0BB2;</span>
or respectively 
  <span style='color:#00f'>{INV}&#x0BC6;</span>&#x0BB2;

With {INV} being the hypothetical, not-spacing-adding, invisible
consonant.

But 
a) {INV} doesn't exist (so far)
and
b) The user agents I tested render {SPACE}&#x0BC6;
with the misguided dotted circle.

So, I can easily withstand this temptation (for now).

Regards,
Peter Jacobi


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