Re: Transcoding Tamil in the presence of markup

[John Hudson]

At 09:47 AM 12/7/2003, Martin Duerst wrote:

The basic problem is that one has to draw the line somewhere.
Sometimes, one would for example like to color the dot on an 'i'.
In Unicode, it may theoretically be possible (with a dotless 'i'
and a 'dot above' or some such), but it wouldn't be a real 'i'
anymore.
Unless you decompose and colour in a buffered layer, preserving the 
original character string.

John Hudson

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