- From: Charles Belov via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 01:03:22 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
I'm not sure I've been understood. That Microsoft Word does autospacing when mixing CJK and Western text does not make it correct (or wrong, for that matter). My concern is that you appear to be proposing to implement something that changes default behavior whether a site wants it or not, resulting in breaking existing content, based on your perception that adding spacing looks better. I have had two professionals who come from journalism tell me that removing spacing looks better, with adding spaces being reserved for special use cases. Again, I am not an expert in Chinese, so take my random search judiciously, but in visits to four Chinese newspaper websites, all four sites had examples of mixed content where it appears there is intentionally no spaces between CJK and Western text. No endorsement of the content is intended; these are merely examples of Chinese content with strings of Western text. https://std.stheadline.com/daily/article/2452186/%E6%97%A5%E5%A0%B1-%E6%B8%AF%E8%81%9E-%E5%85%A7%E5%9C%B0%E8%88%87%E6%B8%AF%E7%A7%8B%E5%AD%A3%E5%89%8D%E6%81%90%E9%9B%A3%E9%80%9A%E9%97%9C (Sing Tao Daily) https://language.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202203/29/WS6242d221a310fd2b29e53fc5.html (China Daily) https://www.zaobao.com.sg/lifestyle/columns/story20220328-1256766 (Zaobao Singapore) https://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20220330001102-260403 (China Times, Taiwan) I acknowledge I did see in my searching discussions on this issue asserting that web designers like to add spacing in these cases. So I am fully in support of adding the automated capability. I am only concerned with the idea of making it the default behavior to the point where it breaks existing content or changes existing behavior to enforce a behavior that appears to not have agreement between designers and journalists. I want to urge that when the CSS Working Group discusses the outcome of this issue, that they respect legacy content. -- GitHub Notification of comment by CharlesBelov Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6950#issuecomment-1082512142 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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