Re: [css-text-decor] Emphasis marks and combining characters

On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 8:45 PM,  <ishida@w3.org> wrote:
> https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-decor-3/#text-emphasis-style-property
>
> says
>
> "The marks are drawn once for each character. However, emphasis marks are
> not drawn for characters that are:
>     Word separators or that belong to the Unicode separator classes (Z*).
> (But note that emphasis marks are drawn for a space that combines with any
> combining characters.)
>     Characters belonging to the Unicode classes for control codes and
> unassigned characters (Cc, Cf, Cn)."
>
>
> presumably these marks should not be displayed for combining characters
> either?

Actually there was a related discussion raised recently in HTML5
Chinese IG as well. That discussion is about whether emphasis marks
should also be skipped for punctuations. JLReq explicitly says
emphasis marks are not used for several punctuations (see 3.3.9 note
2), but the spec doesn't have anything around this.

- Xidorn

Received on Tuesday, 15 December 2015 00:28:03 UTC