Fwd: [w3c/html] Specify `autocapitalize` (#208)

FYI... Note request to track this issue. I suspect a deeper dive is needed.


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Subject: Re: [w3c/html] Specify `autocapitalize` (#208)
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@aphillips<https://github.com/aphillips> re sentences as a default in mobile: yep. I assume that is related to the implementations which have it as a default for certain states of input and for textarea. I'm also wary of issues like matching conventions for capitalising words within sentences - language adjectives in English, nouns in German, ...).

As noted already in linked docs, none is important for stuff like passwords and URLs. I'm not sure what the use case is for words. I can see it in some languages/scripts for fields like name, which is how my own phones sometimes behave.

Thanks for the link to charmod, that should go into the text we add, along with pointers to Unicode and a potted but hopefully helpful and not harmful summary of the key points.

One reason for pushing this off the near milestone is that it is complicated. I would be grateful if i18n took this on as a tracking issue, but will wait for you to re-tag it (or tell me to do so). And it seems to behave differently for typed characters and pasted text. And we still need tests and results to understand what really happens (and whether the 'needs implementations' label should go back - I am personally reluctant to put this in except as "at risk" if it doesn't work across scripts and languages.

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