On 5/29/2012 8:18 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > On 5/23/2012 10:54 PM, Tom Morris wrote: >> 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. > > Okay, so which is more feasible to fix, OL's normalization, or every > system out there that OL data might end up in, some of which don't > render unicode properly in some (non-)normalized forms? > > You can blame the world if you want, but you probably aren't going to be > able to fix it.
Yes, but Mr. Morris points out two problems: 1. Open"Library" has screwed up; 2. Browsers have screwed up. It's true that we can do nothing about 2. Can't we at least do something about 1? _______________________________________________ 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]
