- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:45:00 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
Richard Ishida wrote: > 4.5. Character range: the unicode-range descriptor > http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-css-fonts-3-20130711/#unicode-range-desc > > 'Each <urange> value is a UNICODE-RANGE token made up of a "U+" or "u+" > prefix followed by a codepoint range'. The U+ is not always needed > before every codepoint value (eg. in a range). > > Why do we need the U+/u+ ? It would be easier to just use bare hex > codepoints, especially for ranges, where U+ is only used at the start > anyway. As Tab has already pointed out, the unicode range syntax was part of CSS 2.1 syntax and the descriptor itself is already supported by multiple implementations so it's not appropriate to make a change like this at this point. Regards, John Daggett
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