- From: Gunnar Bittersmann <gunnar@bittersmann.de>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:08:25 +0100
- To: www-international@w3.org
Richard Ishida scripsit (2014-03-17 17:29+01:00): >> http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-choosing-encodings-new >> >> However, I don’t think that the keywords should be marked-up as <strong >> class="kw"> >> >> Stick with code elements, or use span or b. Or for the character >> encodings, no markup at all, as before. >> >> (Don’t replace all occurences of ‘strong’ with ‘code’, there’s a >> ‘strongly’ in the text.) > > The idea was to make them stand out visually. I replaced strong with b. You were using ‘ASCII’, “UTF-8’, ‘UTF-16’ and ‘UTF-32’ with no special visual emphasis throughout the upper three quarters of the article. Why here? To my taste, it does not improve the readability of the text, quite the contrary. If you really want to make them stand out visually: There’s still ‘UTF-8’ and ‘ISO-8859-8-i’ without that markup in one of these paragraphs. And in other articles, such keywords are marked-up as <code class="kw"> and set in normal font weight. Here it’s <b class="kw">, bold font, inconsistently. My proposal is: Display encoding names as normal text, no markup. ‘replacement’ and ‘x-user-defined’ are good candidates for that keyword markup, though. But not in bold, but in normal monospaced font, i.e. use the code element. >> And shouldn’t this link to >> http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-visual-vs-logical#term_visualordering >> >> given that ‘logically ordered’ links to >> http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-visual-vs-logical#term_logicalordering >> >> ? > No. That's what i wanted. To me it’s strange that ‘logically ordered’ (marked-up as "termref") points to the description of that term while ‘visual encoding’ (also marked-up as "termref") does not accordingly, but points to the whole article instead. I think the best phrase to use as link title for the whole article would be ‘should also be avoided’. The anchor links might be out of the scope of this article; most of the target audience of qa-choosing-encodings don’t have to deal with RTL scripts, and Hebrew in particular. And those who do will read the entire article qa-visual-vs-logical anyway. My proposal is: Link to that article just once, without fragment identifier: … (Hebrew visual encoding) <a href="/International/questions/qa-visual-vs-logical">should also be avoided</a>, in favour of an encoding that works with logically ordered text … »» that maps every octet to the Unicode code point «« This is the only time when the term ‘octet’ is used in this article. Would the term be clear to the reader? Or would it be better to use ‘byte’ in this context (even though that might be less accurate)? Cheers, Gunnar
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