- From: Dave Cramer via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 23:03:33 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
It's surprisingly hard to figure out the history of this! Note that `list-style-type: upper-greek` was not in CSS 1, at least not the final [REC](http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1-961217.html#list-style-type). Values were: `disc | circle | square | decimal | lower-roman | upper-roman | lower-alpha | upper-alpha | none` I found an issue in an [old WD](http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-lists-20110524/) of CSS Lists and Counters Level 3: > According to a native Greek speaker, the lower-greek and upper-greek styles aren't actually used. I've removed upper-greek for now, but kept lower-greek because CSS2.1 included the keyword. Do these have actual use-cases? There's also an old thread on www-style, starting [here](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2002Nov/0035.html). There seems to be lots of discussion on whether upper-greek is a valid and useful numbering scheme. For [example](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2002Dec/0034.html), > The numbering schemes named lower-greek & upper-greek in the draft are not used (and not even useful) in modern greek. Please, do not invent them for us! So it sounds like we never reached consensus on what to do. Would [counter styles](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-counter-styles-3/#intro) address your use cases? -- GitHub Notification of comment by dauwhe Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/135#issuecomment-221733593 using your GitHub account
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