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Re: Consonant allophones in Minza

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...>
Date:Friday, October 5, 2007, 7:18
Henrik Theiling skrev:
> Hi! > > Benct Philip Jonsson writes: >> ... >> A word of warning: in MediaWiki you must always put a zero- >> width joiner character &zwj; between a precomposed i with a >> superscript diacritic and a combining subscript diacritic, >> or the engine will 'normalize' it into a dotted i >> precomposed with a subscript diacritic and a combining >> superscript diacritic, which of course means that with most >> fonts you get the dot of the i disturbing the superscript >> diacritic! So you should write e.g. ī&zwj;̣-- i.e. >> &#x012B;&zwj;&#x0323; -- to get the right thing. >> ... > > Just a short clarification: > > The behaviour is not an error of MediaWiki, but the usual, correct > Unicode normalisation. If you get bad results, then either your > browser or your font is broken, not MediaWiki.
I agree.
> So I would recommend to *not* use a &zwj; to hack-fix a broken > behaviour of a browser or font, but instead to use a working browser > or font, or if that is out of the question (for whatever reason), live > with a distorted display, and/or inform the maintainers of the browser > or font of not being Unicode compliant.
I *dis*agree. I want as correct display as possible *now*, and I won't sit around until someone fixes the problem if I can fake it now. I think think that computers should adapt to humans and not the other way around. I guess I'm not the compliant type...
> **Henrik
/BP 8^)> -- Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Sometimes you can't make it The best you can do is to fake it" (U2)

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Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...>
Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>zwj hack in MediaWiki (Was: Consonant allophones in Minza)