- From: Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu <kennyluck@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 08:39:49 +0900
- To: WWW International <www-international@w3.org>
Hello internationalization folks, There is an ongoing hot discussion[1] about a new proposal for CSS, namely introducing variables into the CSS format. The proposal uses the dollar prefix, say, $var, to indicate variables. A concern about whether the dollar sign is *easily* available on keyboards around the worlds was raised[2]. Taking a little look at a Wikipedia entry[3], in several keyboard layouts, including the Danish and Estonian, the dollar sign can't be reached with only the shift key. As far as I know, Perl and PHP use the dollar sign as certain variable indicator, but I googled and find no complaints about this. I wondering it is considered OK in the perspective of internationalization to introduce the dollar sign to CSS. I had an uncomfortable experience to find the hash on an Italian keyboard (because in the world of Semantic Web/Linked Data, the hash is widely used), and the Italian girl told me that it isn't that easy for her too. What about the dollar sign? [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Feb/thread#msg311 [2] http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/css/20110209#l-412 [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout Cheers, Kenny
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