- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:35:09 +0000 (UTC)
- To: ishida@w3.org
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, public-i18n-core@w3.org
- Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0601311730230.6269@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>
On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 ishida@w3.org wrote: > > There should be a definition of what constitutes a 'letter'. We propose > that this should be the first *grapheme cluster* (after any punctuation > such as you list). > > We believe that the specification must, as a minimum, require a letter > to be defined as a 'default grapheme cluster', as defined by Unicode > http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundaries > [http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundaries] . > > This would mean, for example, that 0065: e LATIN SMALL LETTER E + 0301: > ́ COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT would be handled appropriately. > > The specification should then also state that implementors should > implement additional rules based on the language of the text where > necesssary. > > This may be particularly important for scripts such as those of south > asia, where an initial character appears as part of a syllabic group and > may be preceded on the display by a later character, or where the > initial character is a ligature. > > The i18n WG will make some attempts toinvestigate further the > applicability of ::first-letter styling to other scripts and report > back. The working group discussed this and decided to reject your request. We do not believe that specifying this in more detail is particularly useful; the :first-letter rendering is intended to be left largely up to the user agent, based on per-language rules. Please let us know if this, as is likely, does not satisfy your request. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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