- From: Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:02:20 +0300
- To: <www-validator-css@w3.org>
Andreas Prilop wrote:
>> From http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/style/base.css :
>
> div.options select { width: 12em; }
>
> This is not enough for Russian and perhaps for other languages, too.
As far as I can see,
a) this problem is largely caused by the Russian translator's idea of using
both media type identifiers and Russian explanations in the dropdown for
media (though the dropdown for profil has an overflow problem, too)
b) there is currently no comparable problem except for Japanese, where the
first entry for profile is somewhat truncated.
However,
1) setting a width for a select is bad practice, setting a bad example, in a
context where the length of options may vary (a lot), depending on language
2) using the em unit is of course better than e.g. the px unit, but still a
problem; here the specific problem is, to a great extent, caused by the fact
that the average width of Cyrillic letters is larger than that of Latin
letters, since the Cyrillic alphabet has no narrow letters like "i", "l",
and "t".
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