Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-fonts] Improve implementation guidance for font-kerning (#7958)

> kerning is not applied between two glyphs that are in a CJK script

It seems to me from reading the above that some font designers _do_ apply kerning to their CJK fonts, and presumably there should be a way for the content author to enable that as a default if the font kerns by default.  So turning off any kerning for CJK _characters_ seems a bit draconian.  As for where to apply kerning and where not, doesn't that fall out of which _font_ is being used for a range of characters, rather than which characters are being used?  If so, perhaps  `normal` (and/or `auto`?) should perhaps simply apply what the _font designer_ intended. Doesn't that circumvent the issues surrounding when to apply kerning and when not?  (Of course, one may want the ability to also turn on non-default kerning, if it's available (although perhaps a new value is needed for _font-kerning_ to do that?), or to turn off kerning, but those seem like straightforward choices.)

Sorry if i'm barking up the wrong tree.



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