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Re: Chinese/Japanese/Korean names and their romanizations in aFrench article

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From: Christophe Strobbe
Date: Mar 25, 2008 10:10AM

Hi,

At 16:29 25/03/2008, you wrote:
>Consider just placing the Romanization inside parens beside the
>Chinese characters. Since this is a French language site I think
>that would seem appropriate. You should probably also place the
>Chinese characters inside of a span with an appropriate language attribute.

As Pierre already knows from an exchange on another list, I have
created two examples with Ruby at
- <http://tinyurl.com/ytp9m3>; (XHTML 1.0) and
- <htp://tinyurl.com/2ayle9> (XHTML 1.1).

These examples use both rt and rp (<http://www.w3.org/TR/ruby/#rp>;)
elements, so when a brower does not "support" Ruby (Firefox 2 without
the Ruby plugin, Opera 9), the Ruby markup appears in the normal flow
of the text. In Internet Explorer 6, the Ruby markup appears above
the annotated text. The only problem with Internet Explorer is that
it doesn't render some vowels with tone marks on it. If you don't
need tone marks, I think you can perfectly use Ruby ... if you don't
mind the additional markup.

Best regards,

Christophe


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