Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-counter-styles-3] Why was list-style: upper-greek removed?

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.

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