- From: Simon Montagu <smontagu@smontagu.org>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:24:16 +0200
- To: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Andrew Cunningham <lang.support@gmail.com>, style <www-style@w3.org>, wwwintl <www-international@w3.org>, intlcore <public-i18n-core@w3.org>, indic <public-i18n-indic@w3.org>, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
On 10/11/2010 06:12 PM, John Hudson wrote: >> Knowledge about digraphs should be communicated implicitly by the >> @lang attribute, and appropriately handled by the browser in its >> "grapheme cluster" grouping. > > In theory, yes. I'm concerned that in practice there are going to be > lots of holes in the knowledge of particular language needs in software, > especially for minority languages. I'm thinking that it might be > worthwhile to define a syntax by which a web author could explicitly > delimit a 'first letter'. I share your concern, but do we need an explicit syntax? A web author can always use <span> and style it the same as first-letter.
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