- From: ?? ?? <kochi@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:18:20 +0900
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Peter Occil <poccil14@gmail.com>, WHATWG <whatwg@whatwg.org>, Matt Falkenhagen <falken@google.com>
IIUC WebKit uses internally node's language to determine which font to use to render text, e.g for Han unification (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification) WebKit has to choose a proper glyph depending on its lang attribute for the same Unicode codepoint. Matt (falken@) knows more about this. On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, Peter Occil wrote: > > > > Well, my true hope is that such a DOM attribute like "language" will be > > specified in the HTML or DOM spec. Especially since it's not currently > > possible to get the language of a node through JavaScript methods alone. > > What's the use case for having this in HTML? > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' > -- Takayoshi Kochi
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