On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 11:11:25PM +0000, Andreas Vox wrote: > José Abílio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For an small introduction: > > http://www.unicode.org/glossary/ > > Which is neither small nor does it contain an entry for 'mark' !
But if you read it carefully, or search for mark you see reference to different types of marks. Do it, you will the idea. > Do you want to drive me crazy ?? It is just unicode. ;-) > > Accents, for example are marks, any diacrytic that you can imagine is a > > mark. > > Anything that leaves ink on paper when printed? No. :-) > > Spacing Mark. A combining character that is not a nonspacing mark. > > But Spacing Mark != Whitespace if I got that right, phew! Right. :-) > > > And is it ok if I limit myself to ASCII for the time being? > > > > Yes, we are safe with ASCII, notice that standard allows more than that. > > If we restict our self to ASCII and then when supporting unicode lift this > > restriction, we are safe. It is simple and for 1.4 should be OK. > > What about ISO-8859-1 umlauts etc. ? :-> They are allowed. As it is the ß. > ... > > > Note that this is for sgml, for xml the letters + ':.-_' are allowed. > > And all marks, don't forget! ;-) > Oh wait! Are '&' and '<' marks ? And '"' ? There are no marks in ascii range. :-) So if we restrict ourselves to ascii, I don't need to care about marks, for now. I hope this makes you happy. ;-) > /Andreas -- José Abílio Matos LyX and docbook a perfect match. :-)
