- From: by way of Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 10:59:50 +0900
- To: www-international@w3.org
Quoting Peter_Constable@sil.org: > But should there not be some (possibly user-overridable) relationship > between an NLS or similar tag (e.g. "lang" in HTML or xml:lang) and one of > these so that a browser or word-processing app that knows what "language" > (e.g. what RFC 3066 tag) is applied to the data can tell the > layout/rendering sub-system what OT "language-system" tags to apply > (assuming some API exists to do so)? Surely that is where we want to move > toward. I think the idea is that, in a word processor for example, something like 'Typographic system' would be set by the user as an independent layout control, not directly linked to 'language'. This enables the user to select a language to use for sorting, spellchecking, etc. (character level text handling), and separately select a set of typographic conventions (glyph level text display). I suppose some developers may choose to pursue the direction you suggest, e.g. relating default typographic conventions to the user's language setting. I just make the fonts :) John Hudson
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