On Wednesday 09 June 2004 21:05, Alexandros Diamantidis
wrote:
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?
Unicode support is done at the browser level, so support for these
characters would have to be added to IE and Mozilla in order for them to
display properly. It *could* be done at the MediaWiki level,
translating these Unicode characters into an HTML table approximation,
but that would be a little bit strange.
-Mark