- From: jfkthame via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 14:04:58 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
One issue with the Unicode Script property is the characters that have Script=Inherited (generally diacritics) or Script=Common (mostly punctuation)... authors might be surprised at things that *don't* get included by a naïve Script code because they're actually shared by a couple of scripts and so ended up being assigned Script=Common instead of the "expected" script.
As a trivial example: Script=Devanagari would (perhaps unexpectedly) exclude the punctuation marks DEVANAGARI DANDA and DEVANAGARI DOUBLE DANDA, despite their apparently script-specific names, because Scripts.txt has
0964..0965 ; Common # Po [2] DEVANAGARI DANDA..DEVANAGARI DOUBLE DANDA
So perhaps ranges should also take account of whatever appears in the Unicode ScriptExtensions list, which would handle this:
0964 ; Beng Deva Dogr Gong Gonm Gran Gujr Guru Knda Mahj Mlym Nand Orya Sind Sinh Sylo Takr Taml Telu Tirh # Po DEVANAGARI DANDA
0965 ; Beng Deva Dogr Gong Gonm Gran Gujr Guru Knda Limb Mahj Mlym Nand Orya Sind Sinh Sylo Takr Taml Telu Tirh # Po DEVANAGARI DOUBLE DANDA
This would be more useful than using just the simple Script property, IMO.
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