Re: Objection to HTMLWG ISSUE-144 Change Proposal #2 (keep u non-conforming) from Karl Dubost on 2011-04-06 (www-archive@w3.org from April 2011)

From: Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 10:14:40 -0400
To: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
Cc: www-archive@w3.org
Message-Id: <F68EAFB8-AD96-4E4F-82B8-FCDF7942C2F8@la-grange.net>

Le 1 avr. 2011 à 18:14, Aryeh Gregor a écrit :
> The primary use-case for <u> is presentational markup,

I'm not sure this is what it should be for kanjis

data:text/html;charset=utf-8,<doctype html><html><title>demo</title><u lang="ja">下北沢</u></html>


Also 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underline
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/下線
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/下划��

I'm in favor of removing it. 

-- 
Karl Dubost
Montréal, QC, Canada
http://www.la-grange.net/karl/

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