Is a sequence of a U+25CC DOTTED CIRCLE plus a combining mark plain text? If so, how many dotted circles should appear?
If the sequence is not plain text, what mark-up notations are available to control the number of dotted circles produced? I am particularly interested in notation for HTML, e.g. via a style sheet. Should the sequence instead be treated as a graphic? This question is prompted by a confused discussion of what the notation <U+25CC, U+0E31 THAI CHARACTER MAI HAN-AKAT, U+25CC> on a web page meant. The confusion was caused because some of us saw two dashed circles and others saw three dashed circles (one for each character) when viewing the web page. Richard.
