- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:01:56 +0000
- To: www-style@w3.org
- CC: "public-i18n-core@w3.org" <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
7.1. Inserting quotes with the 'content' property http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css3-content-20030514/#specifying I'm wondering whether we need a way to reset the embedding levels of quotes. Here's the reason: If you have the following CSS: :lang(en) > * { quotes: '"' '"' "'" "'"; } :lang(no) > * { quotes: "«" "»" '"' '"' } And you have <p lang=no>Some Norwegian text <q>more norwegian <q>more norwegian</q></q>.</p> You'd expect to see Some Norwegian text «more norwegian "more norwegian"». which perfectly fine. But if you had <p lang=en>Some English text <q lang=no>Some norwegian <q>more norwegian</q></q>.</p> Then I think you'd see Some English text "Some norwegian "more norwegian"". I'd have thought that the quotes surrounding the text 'more norwegian' here should be surrounded by «...». This could maybe be done by a rule that says that if a q element carries a lang attribute, the next embedded q attribute should use the highest level quote marks. Or perhaps it needs some attribute to reset the levels? In addition, maybe that would also give you more control over how the quotes are used in other situations (such as to replicate the original text) - although perhaps that's best achieved using special class names or just by avoiding q altogether. [Reviewed by the i18n WG] -- Richard Ishida Internationalization Activity Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/International/ http://rishida.net/
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