- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:57:30 +0200
- To: "Glenn A. Adams" <gadams@xfsi.com>
- Cc: public-tt@w3.org
On Thursday, July 27, 2006, 5:07:43 PM, Glenn wrote: GAA> Chris, GAA> Thanks for your comment. The TT WG has reviewed this comment has agreed GAA> upon the following response: GAA> Regarding your question, it depends upon whether the language or writing GAA> system is unknown or unspecified. If either of these cases hold, then, GAA> according to rule 2 above, each of your examples except the last would GAA> be interpreted as one word. The last would be interpreted as two words, GAA> presuming that the ' ' between "Masayasu" and "Ishikawa" is represented GAA> as #x20. In contrast, if the language or writing system is known, e.g., GAA> if xml:lang="en" is specified on the root element (and no override GAA> appears), then a word unit is specified in accordance of the rules of GAA> that language or writing system. DFXP does not specify these latter GAA> rules in an interoperable manner (as Unicode also does not specify). Thank you for the clarification. This response is satisfactory to me. GAA> Regards, GAA> Glenn GAA> -----Original Message----- GAA> From: public-tt-request@w3.org [mailto:public-tt-request@w3.org] On GAA> Behalf Of Chris Lilley GAA> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 2:04 AM GAA> To: public-tt@w3.org GAA> Subject: Words and spaces GAA> Hello public-tt, GAA> In section 8.3.7 <flowFunction> GAA> The dynamic flow unit word must be interpreted as being dependent upon GAA> the language or writing system of the affected content. If the language GAA> or writing system is unknown or unspecified, then word is interpreted GAA> as follows: GAA> 1. If the affected content consists solely or mostly of Unified CJK GAA> Ideographic characters or of characters of another Unicode character GAA> block that are afforded similar treatment to that of Unified CJK GAA> Ideographic characters, then word is to be interpreted as if GAA> character were specified. GAA> GAA> 2. Otherwise, word is to be interpreted as denoting a sequence of one GAA> or more characters that are not interpreted as an XML whitespace GAA> character. GAA> Noting the "must" which is a testable conformance requirement, do the GAA> following paragraphs contain one word or two? GAA> <p>Hello　World</p> GAA> <p xml:lang="en">Hello　World</p> GAA> <p xml:lang="en">Hello World</p> GAA> <p xml:lang="ja">Hello　World</p> GAA> <p xml:lang="ja">Hello World</p> GAA> <p xml:lang="ja">Masayasu Ishikawa</p> GAA> For a list of Unicode space characters, see for example GAA> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/spaces.html -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Interaction Domain Leader Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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