FPWD: Ethiopic Layout Requirements

Ethiopic Layout Requirements

https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-elreq-20160908/

Abstract


This document describes requirements for the layout and presentation of text in languages that use the Ethiopic script when they are used by Web standards and technologies, such as HTML, CSS, Mobile Web, Digital Publications, and Unicode.

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This document describes the basic requirements for Ethiopic script layout and text support on the Web and in eBooks. These requirements provide information for Web technologies such as CSS, HTML and digital publications about how to support users of Ethiopic scripts. Currently the document focuses on Amharic and Tigrinya.

The editor's draft of this document is being developed by the Ethiopic Layout Task Force, part of the W3C Internationalization Interest Group. It is published by the Internationalization Working Group. The end target for this document is a Working Group Note.
 
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