[Bug 12400] Inconsistent treatment of combining characters beginning text run

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12400

--- Comment #12 from Shai Berger <shai@platonix.com> ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> (In reply to comment #10)
> > (In reply to comment #8)
> > > The standards should be realistic about interop.
> > 
> > Then you should change the standards, overriding the conclusion reached in
> > ticket 13502 (and the intentions of UNICODE, as detailed there).
> 
> If you want to have a change made to a particular spec, this bug is not the
> place to do it.
> 

It was Henri who suggested there was something wrong with the spec. I would
like to see it implemented as it stands.

> > To clarify: The problem is that the validator rejects something that the
> > standards allow,
> 
> The validator doesn't "reject" it -- it emits a warning, not an error. A
> warning is appropriate here, given comment 5.
> 
> > on the ground that the browsers don't implement it well;
> 
> The fact that browsers don't implement it well is the reason the validator
> is emitting a warning. The warning is there to let users know that something
> they might be think will work correctly actually might not work as they
> expect.
> 

I see. In that case, perhaps the warning message can be made clearer.

> 
> The reason I moved the bug to "resolved" is that in comments here you've
> already heard from the maintainers of the validator, neither of whom is
> planning to take any action on the bug.

Will you accept a patch to this effect (make it clearer that the warning is
about current implementation in browsers)?

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Received on Saturday, 17 August 2013 06:55:36 UTC