Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-values-4][css-writing-modes-4] Revisit decision to use 永 instead of 水 as the ic unit (#7577)

@bnoctis
According to my understanding of the Chinese culture, 'where the heroes are from' does not matter' (英雄不问出处). Anyone with enough domain knowledge is eligible for making design decisions. In this particular problem, a typography expert studying Chinese as a foreign language may have more domain knowledge. Cultures have ambiguous parts that only native users of associated languages can handle well. But measuring a glyph is not that hard.

On the other hand, foreign users are also stakeholders in layouting characters. People do publish materials in their foreign languages (this page is an example). And mixing native and foreign characters in the same sentence is a valid use case (this page is also an example). Problems in such practices (some are hard to imagine for native users) also need to be addressed.

By the way, as far as I know, '水' is picked by @fantasai while working on writing modes, not a random Googler.


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