- From: Sangwhan Moon <sangwhan@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 01:07:24 +0900
- To: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>, KIG HTML <public-html-ig-ko@w3.org>, CJK discussion <public-i18n-cjk@w3.org>, "www-style list" <www-style@w3.org>
Original Message: > I was reading KLREQ[1] and have got a fundamental (I think) question. > > In my understanding, there are 3 types of Korean documents: > 1. Hangul-only (with Latin mixed) documents. > 2. Hangul + some Han, with Latin mixed documents. > 3. Han-only (sometimes with a few Hangul) documents. > > >From layout characteristic perspective, #1 and #2 are similar to Latin; words are split by spaces, though there’s a stylistic variation to allow line breaks at any character boundaries. > > #3 is different from these two in that it’s closer to Chinese; such documents do not use spaces to delimit words, and they always allow line breaks at any character boundaries. > > When I was reading KLREQ, I found some examples such as pictures in [2] or [3] that consist of only Hangul characters, but I can’t find any spaces to delimit words in these examples. These are bad examples, the text should have spaces. [3] written correctly should be [4], and I'm pretty sure that vertical layout in modern context has spacing. (Archaic documents do exist which have no spaces, e.g. hunminjeongeum eonhaebon [5]) There are some additional errors in KLREQ that never got addressed IIRC, so it's probably not the best idea to use KLREQ as a definitive reference. > > What typographic characteristics do these documents have? Should they be layout like traditional Korean documents (i.e., Chinese documents,) such as expanding between any letters when justified? > > Currently, based on the understanding I mentioned at the top of this e-mail, the CSS WG thinks Korean authors can use #1/#2 layout with lang=“ko”, and can switch to #3 by specifying lang=“ko-hani”. If there were documents that consist of only (or-mostly) Hangul but have Chinese-like layout, this idea may not be great. > > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/klreq/ > [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/klreq/#para-writingdirection > [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/klreq/#line-head-indent [4] http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/대한민국의_국가#.EA.B0.80.EC.82.AC [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunminjeongeum
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