Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-text] Clarify importance of writing system as well as language for lang-specific effects

Since I was the one making the original complaint, I should first apologize for not joining in the discussion, but I think I need to make it clear that my issue was not specific to the Chinese writing system. I did observe the problem while marking up Chinese, but I can’t see how this isn’t going to affect other languages that can be written in multiple scripts (basically anything that’s not written in the Latin alphabet).

I just cobbled up a minimal test:

    <!doctype html>
    <html lang=en>
    <head>
    <meta charset=utf-8>
    <title>Test</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <p>
    This is a sentence with a Chinese word, <span lang=zh-yue-latn>ping4 on1</span>;
    an Arabic word, <span lang=ar-latn>salaam</span>;
    and a Hebrew word, <span lang=he-latn>shalom</span>.
    </body>
    </html>

I have not tried overriding any styling yet, but with default styling all the three non-English words are being displayed using a different font (on Firefox Nightly 64.0a1) even though they are all “latn”. This doesn’t look like something specific to the Chinese writing system to me.

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Received on Tuesday, 9 October 2018 02:14:23 UTC