- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:38:48 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: WHAT WG List <whatwg@whatwg.org>, public-html@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > Summary: I've made the spec require that any punctuation for <q> be > included inside the element; I've added examples for <q>. > ... >> How would you define CSS pseudo-elements for open and close quotes in >> such a way that they would be implementable and would not match >> apostrophes and would correctly differentiate between open and close >> quotes in languages that use the same character for opening and closing >> and in languages that invert the direction of guillemets compared to >> French? > > I would introduce two pseudo-elements, ::quote-start and ::quote-end, > which match one or more characters with the Quotation_Mark property (as > per Unicode PropList) found at the start or end of an element, if such > text is a direct child of the element (skipping White_Space characters). > > I've started this idea down the path of the CSS working group. Please send a message with your proposal to www-style for discussion and CC www-international. (We use the wiki to track issues, not as a substitute for mailing list discussion. Also, it would be important to have i18n people involved since punctuation styles vary across languages and I'm not sure Unicode's Quotation_Mark property is adequate.) ~fantasai
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