Re: [w3c/selection-api] Specify Selection.modify()? (#37)

> Do you know if the differences with Latin script intentional? Perhaps other engines could match WebKit instead?

Yes, WebKit behaves differently on Windows/Linux and Mac on purpose due to the differences in the underlying platform's convention.

> If there's no way to make word boundary logic more interoperable, then that could just be acknowledged as a problem in the spec, or a feature if it maps to diverging user preferences.

Well, the problem exists for `character`, `sentence`, and other granularities. Figuring out where a sentence ends is not a trivial matter in some languages.

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