Re: Chinese language and emphasis

At 15:29 08/01/31, KUROSAKA Teruhiko wrote:
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>> I'm wondering if anyone could answer a couple of questions for me. As I understand it Japanese doesn稚 use italics as a form of emphasis, so using |<i>| tags around ideographic text is a big no no. Can anyone 
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>Not necessarily.  Use of italic in Japanese text is rare but not wrong.
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>By the way, the <i> tag will no longer mean italic when the now draft HTML5
>becomes the standard.

I think there is a small but important difference between
"will necessarily be italicized" and "means italic". <i>
always has and still means italic. But since the first days,
without even needing stylesheets, there was no guarantee that
the contents of the <i> element would be rendered in italic,
e.g. on a text-only browser for a 24x80 terminal.

Regards,    Martin.

>Here's a quote from:
>http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/#the-i
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>The i element should be used as a last resort when no other element is more
>appropriate. In particular, citations should use the cite element, defining instances
>of terms should use the dfn  element, stress emphasis should use the em  element,
>importance should be denoted with the strong element, quotes should be marked
>up with the q element, and small print should use the small element.
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>Style sheets can be used to format i elements, just like any other element can be
>restyled. Thus, it is not the case that content in i elements will necessarily
>be italicised.
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>KUROSAKA Teruhiko ("Kuro"), San Francisco, California, USA
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#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
#-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp

Received on Thursday, 31 January 2008 10:28:20 UTC