[csswg-drafts] [css-text-4] text-transform-property full-size-kana seems out of place (#10140)

macnmm has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:

== [css-text-4] text-transform-property full-size-kana seems out of place ==
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-4/#text-transform-property

> Converts all [small Kana](https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-4/#kana-small) characters to the equivalent [full-size Kana](https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-4/#kana-full-size). This value is typically used for ruby annotation text, where authors may want all small Kana to be drawn as large Kana to compensate for legibility issues at the small font sizes typically used in ruby.


Small kana is not equivalent to large kana -- small kana cannot exist on their own but modify the character before and are always attached to the prior character. They are not simply a small version of the large kana character. In ruby usage, it is true to make it more legible by convention, small kana are written the same size (or very close) to the other kana. Kana OTF feature can perform this using glyph substitution. I believe changing the text itself, in the manner of a case change, is completely a different and unrelated transformation to this ruby usage of a larger glyph to display what is functionally a different character altogether.

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10140 using your GitHub account


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