Andrew Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> But they're very confusing
> for both users and developers.
> For English ligatures (optional ligatures) I would
> suggest an inline <ligate> tag which would do nothing
> if put around non-ligatable characters.  A <noligate>
> tag also if we decide to go with an "auto-ligate"
> option.

One advantage of using ZWJ/ZWNJ is that they get exported
correctly automatically when exporting to Unicode-aware
fileformats. And according to W3C & The Unicode C., they *are*
suitable for use in markup languages / XML
<URL: http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr20/#Format >.

-- 
Karl Ove Hufthammer

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