> Clarification, please. Does this mean that the code: > > <span lang=EN-GB >ν</span><span lang=EN-GB > style='font-family:Cardo'>̄</span> > > will be considered illegal due to the freestanding ̄ ?
Well leaving out the quotes around tokens is old-fashioned anyway, and I don't know if it will apply to HTML4.01 and earlier. As for modern markup, consider if instead of ̄ you had ̸ By the rules of XML that is treated as if the character U+0338 was there rather than the escape sequence. By the rules of Unicode the sequence U+003E, U+0338 is treated the same as the character U+226F. By the rules of XML replacing ≯ with U+226F would mean the document was no longer well-formed. So even without an explicit spec saying otherwise the above would be problematic. -- Jon Hanna <http://www.hackcraft.net/> …it has been truly said that hackers have even more words for equipment failures than Yiddish has for obnoxious people." - jargon.txt
