Letter spacing in Indic scripts

Dear Indic layout taskforce,

CSS3 Text defines a letter-spacing property at 
http://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/#letter-spacing-property

I have two questions on behalf of the i18n WG:

[1] do indic scripts do letter-spacing?

[2] if they do, what happens for scripts with a bar, such as Devanagari? 
Is the bar continuous or broken?

I suppose another question would be whether there are any other 
idiosynchrasies involved for indic scripts, such as unequal spacing, etc.

The CSS3 Text spec is at the end of the Last Call period, so the spec 
authors would appreciate a quick response on this.

Thanks,
Richard

Received on Friday, 6 December 2013 17:56:18 UTC