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Hi.<BR>
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Doug, thanks for your very very patient reply to me. A subtag like your example,<BR>
> <span lang="en"><BR>> Send us your re<span lang="en-Zinh">[U+0301]</span>sume<span <BR>> lang="en-Zinh">[U+0301]</span>.<BR>> </span> <BR>
at least would not hurt a document, so no need to tell people not to tag documents with it. <BR>
So perhaps the current description,<BR>
"Code for inherited script"<BR>
is sufficient.<BR>
(However, I am still confused . . .<BR>
> In Unicode, every coded character has a script property, and in <BR>particular, general-purpose combining characters like U+0301 have a <BR>script property of "inherited," which means that they temporarily assume <BR>the script property of the base character that precedes them. In this <BR>example, the acute accent inherits the script property of "Latin" from <BR>the base letter U+0065. The combining acute accent is not permanently <BR>assigned to the Latin script because it could reasonably be used in a <BR>different context with some other script, such as Cyrillic.<BR>
>Now, I'd like someone to explain to me the benefit of writing something <BR>like this, in a context such as HTML where BCP 47 language tags can be <BR>used to tag arbitrary sections of text:<BR>
> <span lang="en"><BR>> Send us your re<span lang="en-Zinh">[U+0301]</span>sume<span <BR>> lang="en-Zinh">[U+0301]</span>.<BR>> </span> <BR>
Fine, this much makes perfect sense to me; no problem at all; now for one more incredibly stupid question: if the Unicode character automatically inherits its script from the script subtag (in all cases) why then is a code like 'zinh' needed at all? That's where my confusion rests. I gather from what people say that in some cases it is necessary to make clear that the script is inherited.<BR>
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Sorry to waste list time on this)<BR>
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--C. E. Whitehead<BR>
<A href="mailto:cewcathar@hotmail.com">cewcathar@hotmail.com</A> <BR>
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