TEI P5 and Special Characters Outside Unicode

Introduction One of the major challenges facing TEI encoders of older documents (ancient and medieval manuscripts, early print, manuscripts transcribed in modern print editions) is the range of special characters and abbreviations that they contain. This issue is especially critical for online documentary editions, where the goal is to present the digital facsimile of a manuscript alongside its electronic transcription. Many of the characters in the facsimile will have no exact cor...