Lee Maguire graded snobberies, bawdiness, hypocrisy

Posted
3 October 2003
16:10

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Bizarre spelling

I notice the current version of the SVG Tiny spec lists one of the authors as Benoît Bézaire, Corel Corporation. Normally I’d assume this is a corruption in my browser of “Benoît Bézaire” caused by ignoring standard HTML entities. But wait! This is the W3 we’re talking about.

Checking the code shows: Benoît Bézaire.
It may be nonsense, but at least it’s properly formatted, unambiguous nonsense.

I wonder, does HTML have a standard way of marking up deliberate misspellings? A <span lang="gibberish"> or <sic> tag?