> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ernest Cline
> There are several on-line dictionaries available now. A quick > examination found six different ways of representing the sound > of voiced th. > > 1) Italicize "th" > 2) Underline "th" Clearly markup should be used. > 3) Use "dh" > 4) Use the eth "�" but not the full IPA. (Eth is in Latin-1.) > 5) Use "[|th]" Clearly distinct spellings that need distinct plain-text representations. > 6) Provide a audio file for the word. Clearly not text. > Do we really want to encode a particular publisher's markup as > a character in Unicode? Encode that which is plain text as plain text, and markup as markup. Peter Constable

