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- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 20:09:00 +0000
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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26608
Bug ID: 26608
Summary: Provide a way to specify font for list-style-type
Product: CSS
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: critical
Priority: P2
Component: Lists and Counters
Assignee: jackalmage@gmail.com
Reporter: jc@ahangama.com
QA Contact: public-css-bugzilla@w3.org
Please see the following link.
http://ahangama.com/sbpc/index.htm
The RHS top button switches the page to the Singhala translation. On that page,
beneath the complex script is actually romanized Singhala (RS), somewhat like
Icelandic. Since the Singhala font renders romanized Singhala in the native
script, it is unable to show list-style-types roman / alpha in their expected
letter shapes. Therefore, I was forced to use regular Arabic numbering for all
sub lists in the Singhala copy.
Considering <ol>, it is only a container and has no text at its own level to
show. Supposing there was a mechanism to define a font for the list-style-type,
I would have had the chance to make those sub lists have roman numerals or
English lowercase letters matching the English original.
I understand that if I used Unicode Sinhala, using bare 'Plain Text', this
would not have been a problem although you cannot find matching Roman and
Unicode Singhala fonts. There is a practical reason that romanized Singhala is
used. The Singhala page is Content Editable. That is so that people in the
group can use slightly altered English keyboard to type Singhala. Only trained
copy typists type Unicode Sinhala, which is considered a specialized IT skill
in Lanka.
OTHER REASONS
The proposed selector would help better esthetics of a page with all the good
stuff CSS brings.
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