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Subject: Re: Unicode and XSL (was substring()) From: James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 19:53:04 +0700 |
Richard Light wrote: > The *semantics* of "the first character" might be a difficult one. > However, if you are simply trying to count characters, surely all you > have to do is to ignore any combining characters that occur within the > string. That rule wouldn't work very well for some languages. For example, in Thai (and I believe many other South-East Asian and Indic languages) some vowels are represented by base characters and some vowels are represented by combining characters. For Thai, this rule would be a bit like saying in English that we will count a, e and o but won't count i or u. James XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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