- From: Asbjørn Riis-Knudsen via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 18:45:31 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
@revoltpuppy I strongly disagree that the CSS spec should in any way make recommendations for a specific language. It seems that whoever made this change knew English and a little German and left it at that, not bothering to research the issue more broadly. If that had been done, it would have been discovered immediately that this would not work in most languages. It's one thing to not hyphenate words with a capital letter in a sentence. But not hyphenating the first word in a sentence is the really critical bit here. Whoever thought that was a good idea? If English is the only language where you don't want to hyphenate proper names, then why was the change not restricted to English? Why the specific exception for German when many other languages are also affected? The process here is clearly broken. This needs to be acknowledged and the change reverted to that a proper solution that works for _all_ languages can be worked out. The arrogance of just assuming that "it works like that it English, then it must be same in other languages" is really getting annoying. So many stupid design decisions in tech have been made because Americans have no concept of how other languages work. This is just the latest. -- GitHub Notification of comment by arknu Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3927#issuecomment-1106769924 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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