Peter Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> write:
But the good screen reader would still need to distinguish their pronunciations. Is there any type of character which could be defined, in Unicode, to preserve this distinction, but to be completely hidden in display? Perhaps some kind of zero width morpheme break character?
Okay, so you want to distinguish pronunciations, so you propose a character totally insufficient to do the job, and one that will rarely if ever get used in practice, so the good screen reader has to solve the problem anyway?
I propose nothing. I don't even mention the possibility of anything to make a full phonetic representation, merely something which could be used, by those who want to mark up text in that way (although many will choose not to), to distinguish between words with the same spelling but different pronunciations, like "lead" in English. But my words "mark up" betray how I think any such proposal would be viewed.
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