> 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

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