On 24 May 2012 04:54, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:16 PM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 2012-05-18 12:51, Ben Companjen wrote: >>> Compare: Hélène (copied from OL) and Hélène (typed myself) >> >> Some people replied that they didn't see any difference, and >> that's the problem. > > I'd argue that there are (at least) two problems: 1) that byte > codes/codepoints aren't being normalized effectively and 2) rendering > systems are rendering improperly. > > In my opinion, any reasonable rendering system should render the byte > codes for base character plus combining accent *exactly* the same as > the precombined form. > >> Wikipedia would always prefer the latter. > > I think "latter" here is NFC which we've already discussed, but I > don't understand the reference to Wikipedia. > >> ... the combining marks looked ugly in my browser. > > That just means that you've got a buggy browser and/or rendering > subsystem for your operating system. It doesn't have anything to do > with the buggy underlying characters.
Agreed. And it means I will look at filing a bug report with Mozilla :) > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > Ol-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-tech mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-tech To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
