[css-text-3] Language Tagging, writing systems, and typographic conventions

• From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
• Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 19:04:47 -0700
• To: 'WWW International' <www-international@w3.org>, 'Richard Ishida' <ishida@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <0c0fd7ee-ed98-c74c-7b0a-99c8a71364ba@inkedblade.net>

Hi i18nwg,
I've just committed
   https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commit/c983ca60b3a268fefd93f81d81495974c8eb2484
which fixes
   https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1015
and
   https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2015
by adding some additional information and warnings about language-specific
typographic effects and the need to correctly language-tag (and in some cases,
script-tag) content. The resulting spec prose is in two sections:

   https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/#languages (intro)
   https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/#script-tagging (appendix)

The goal of these sections are twofold:

   * Make authors and implementors aware of the need to use language tags
     to solicit correct language-specific typographic behavior from the UA.

   * Ensure that script tags are used and interpreted correctly when a
     document is written in an atypical language + writing system combination.

Please let me know if the text needs additional tweaking.
Thanks~
~fantasai

Received on Friday, 23 March 2018 02:05:25 UTC