Peter Kirk writes:So, let's get this clear. Within an XML or HTML document, if I want an e with a red acute accent on it, it is quite permissible to write:
Philippe, you have now stated this (several times). But just a day earlier you yourself stated that the rule forbidding combining marks at the start of a string would never be relaxed because it is fundamental to the XML containment model. You don't usually contradict yourself quite so obviously.
I don't know how you interpreted what I may have said a few days before.
I have certainly not said that XML forbids combining marks at the start
of XML, just that W3C does not _recommand_ it as well as any other
defective combining sequences, as they are known to cause problems
(for example when it's difficult to track the effective text file type)
e<span class="red-text">{U+0301}</span>
where {U+0301} is replaced by the actual Unicode character, and "red-text" is defined in the stylesheet. So it is not a problem that there is a defective combining sequence, nor that the accent is not combined with the e as it would be in NFC. Is that correct?
If this is correct, then the Tamil problem which Peter J is concerned about has gone away completely, or at least it is reduced to a tricky rendering issue.
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