- From: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:14:15 +0000
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- CC: www-international@w3.org, www-style@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
Richard Ishida wrote: >The W3C i18n Working Group would like to gather information about the usefulness, in general, of the ::first-letter pseudo-element in non-Latin scripts, and any particular issues or differences arising from the different characteristics of the scripts. We would like to hear from you if you have some knowledge/thoughts in this area. > >Please read the questions at > >http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/?p=40 > > >and send your comments to www-international @ w3.org >Archive: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/ > >Thank you. > > > > Hi Richard, I tested LamAlif letter (Lam+Alif) as a "first letter" with mozilla 1.7 (http://www.w3c.org.ma/Tests/InitLigature.html). Only the very first letter LAM is styled. I was expecting that (nomally) LamAlif as a ligature would be considered as first letter. I am not expert in writing/printing systems. I'll ask some experts around here to know more about that. >(We may adopt this approach as way of regularly seeking feedback on particular issues.) > >============ >Richard Ishida >Internationalization Lead >W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) > >http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/ >http://www.w3.org/International/ >http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/ >http://www.flickr.com/photos/ishida/ > > > > > -- Najib TOUNSI (mailto:tounsi @ w3.org) Bureau W3C au Maroc (http://www.w3c.org.ma/) Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingenieurs, BP 765 Agdal-RABAT Maroc (Morocco) Phone : +212 (0) 37 68 71 74 Fax : +212 (0) 37 77 88 53 Mobile: +212 (0) 61 22 00 30
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