On Wednesday 09 June 2004 21:05, Alexandros Diamantidis wrote:
- Delirium delirium@hackish.org [2004-06-09 04:04]:
Jens Frank wrote:
Shouldn't UTF-8 provide the needed diacritic characters needed to compose these, without needing HTML tables?
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So it's really something more on the publication-layout level than on the character level, which is why it'll probably never be in Unicode, even as a combinator sort of thing.
To be pedantic about it, there are three characters defined in Unicode for this:
U+FFF9 INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION ANCHOR U+FFFA INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION SEPARATOR U+FFFB INTERLINEAR ANNOTATION TERMINATOR
In systems that support them, <FFF9><kanji><FFFA><hiragana><FFFB> would mean the kanji with the hiragana as ruby annotation. In practice, I don't think this is implemented anywhere. It was defined more for internal use in systems that could use them, not as characters that could appear in plain text or entered by users.
Though I do think that tables should be inlined, perhaps even better solution would be to add support for these characters to MediaWiki. Should it be done?