Re: Proposal for isolation characters in Unicode and the unicode-bidi:isolate and unicode-bidi:plaintext definitions

On 5/15/2012 1:55 PM, fantasai wrote:
> On 05/15/2012 01:30 PM, Glenn Adams wrote:
>>
>> I agree. I raised this issue last week in Hanover at the CSS WG 
>> meeting, to which fantasai replied that there was a plan to
>> modify Unicode to maintain harmony. However, it would seem that may 
>> not be the case.
>
> To be clear, you asked me why CSS3 had isolation at all when Unicode 
> did not, not
> whether it's behavior in the edge cases Aharon just brought forward 
> yesterday is
> identical to that defined in the new proposals for Unicode.
>
> ~fantasai
>
>
OK, let's not deep-end here on the details of past conversations.

The important thing is that if both Unicode and CSS add "isolate" that
the two groups please make sure that those specifications are compatible.

Approving two identically named features with different behavior is
very problematic.

A./

Received on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 21:06:25 UTC