- From: Lea Verou via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 09:39:55 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Hi @aviennas, I am the Greek speaker that said this to the WG. Thank you for your compliments. :D I think you skimmed through the replies you were given a bit too quickly, which is a bit disrespectful for the people who spent time replying to you. At the risk of this reply being read diagonally as well, I will try to explain. Greek counter styles in CSS today are actually **incorrect**, which I imagine is an even worse problem for anyone having "Greek ancient and modern literature as their field of study". I'm surprised you did not focus your complaint on that. Which Greek ever uses α, β, γ, δ, ε, ζ, η, θ, ι, κ, λ, μ, ..., ω, αα, αβ, αγ etc for numbering?! I have never seen this in Greece, anywhere. If you're a native speaker, and especially someone with "Greek ancient and modern literature as their field of study", you know very well that the correct order is α, β, γ, δ, ε, **στ**, ζ, η θ, ... and that there's no such thing as αα, αβ, αγ. What CSS currently does, is basically a direct translation of how letter numbering works in English, which in Greek is wrong. That's what Tab was explaining to you. Nobody claimed that the Greek language is not being used today, so you're arguing against a strawman here. -- GitHub Notification of comment by LeaVerou Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/135#issuecomment-247949807 using your GitHub account
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