Re: New task force member, Chen Hui Jing

Hello everyone,
I'm Hui Jing, from Malaysia but currently based in Singapore. I'm a web developer especially interested in CSS, as well as typography. Chinese are a minority in Malaysia, and even though Singapore has a significant Chinese population, the younger generation are actually losing proficiency in Chinese, preferring English as their language of use. Singapore even has a Speak Mandarin Campaign now to prevent this problem from getting worse (http://mandarin.org.sg/en) I found this quite alarming but didn't know what I could do about it.
Some time last year, I started to explore the CSS writing-mode property, which allows vertical layout on the web, and built a few Chinese language projects. There are a lot of resources when it comes to doing Latin-based typography on the web, but only a handful of resources when it comes to non-Latin typography. I found that modern CSS is much more powerful than before and we now have tools to do layout in non-Latin languages on the web. But to be honest, some browser implementations are still rather buggy, perhaps because they are not widely used yet.
It was then I become very interested in Chinese typography in general, and learnt about the Chinese Layout Task Force from the Type Is Beautiful podcast, and realised there is a group who is actively working to come up with Chinese Script Layout Requirements. I thought this was great because it would address a number of browser bugs with regards to Chinese layouts on the web. And maybe this would encourage more creative Chinese language website design and help promote the Chinese language in Singapore (I know this sounds like a long shot but I feel it could help things). I would like to help the Task Force in any way possible, from translation or proof-reading, or even some ideas on how to solve certain issues currently being discussed on Github. Cheers,Hui Jing 

    On Wednesday, March 22, 2017 7:15 PM, r12a <ishida@w3.org> wrote:
 

 Please welcome Hui Jing, based in Singapore, to the group.

Hui Jing, if you want to, feel free to introduce yourself on this list 
and let us know what you'd like to achieve as part of the group.

cheers,
ri