Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-text-4] Make ideograph-alpha and ideograph-numeric part of text-spacing: normal (#6950)

Btw, i'd urge a little caution in basing decisions solely on online text. It may indicate a fundamental preference for no autospacing.  Or it may done because without a proper way of typesetting online text so that it has the right size of gap, no gap looks better.  It may even be the case that this is a new trend that is becoming normalised.

Across many languages i see approaches to typography that have been produced by the inability of technology to do what's really wanted, and several cases where this is just accepted, or even starting to become considered as normal.

So, I think it's also important to also consider common approaches in quality printed text, where correct autospacing can be applied if desired,  and @xfq provides several examples just above that suggest that autospacing is used in such. 

I await with interest the advice of people (such as the clreq group) that have expertise in Chinese typography as to what should be the best default – although there may not be a clear answer even then.

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