- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 13:59:55 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 05/06/2011 01:09 PM, Me wrote: > With the popularisation of the goal to get web content that can exist universally, on all browsers, devices, and countries without writing an entire new site per each, I realised if it was possible or if the idea had been brought up to customise styling based on language? > > For example, text-aligned right if Hebrew or Arabic, bold for Chinese (Simplified), or a white colour if Spain-Spanish? > > The above were hypothetical ideas and in regards to the syntax, I am debating on what it could / would be because the CSS will not detect the language and convert the text, but would only check if a particular language is being used and style accordingly and if one can not be detected, then it defaults to english?. > > Do you guys have any ideas, comments, or suggestions? I believe this was addressed in 1998. http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/selector.html#lang See also http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/selector.html#lang http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-selectors/#lang-pseudo As for text alignment for rtl languages, it is handled automatically if you specify the HTML 'dir' attribute like you're supposed to. See existing documentation: http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/bidi-xhtml/ http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech-bidi/ http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.2 ~fantasai
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