Re: Internationalization section for text spacing

Hi Jim,

This is great.

Thank you so very much.

Kindest Regards,

Laura

On Feb 1, 2018 9:59 AM, "Jim Allan" <jimallan@tsbvi.edu> wrote:

> Effects of Text Spacing on Languages/Scripts
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> The SC allows the user to make spacing adjustments. The author needs to
> allow for the adjustments within the SC range without breaking content as
> shown in the examples below. The ability to read and derive meaning from
> the adjusted content rests with the reader. If the increased spacing
> impacts those abilities the user will adjust or they will return to the
> default view. Regardless, they user needs the flexibility to adjust spacing
> within the bounds set in the SC.
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> Testing the following pages with the maximum spacing adjustments allowed
> by the SC showed no adverse effects for the roughly 480 languages and
> scripts represented..
>
>    - Languages in their own writing systems http://www.geonames.de/
>    languages.html
>    - Online Encylopedia of writing systems and languages – language names
>    https://www.omniglot.com/language/names.htm
>    <https://www.omniglot.com/language/names.htm> and
>    - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 1)
>    https://www.omniglot.com/udhr/index.htm
>    <https://www.omniglot.com/udhr/index.htm>
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> Character Spacing - Individual characters in words remained intact though
> they were spaced a bit further apart.
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> Word Spacing – Words were space farther apart. In languages that do not
> have words (e.g. Japanese) applying word spacing had no effect. Which is
> expected.
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> Line-height adjustment – Changing line-height did not separate diacritics
> from characters, nor did it adversely impact ascenders and descenders.
>
> --
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