- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:57:08 +0000
- To: r12a <ishida@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
Hello Richard, others, On 2019/02/08 00:37, r12a wrote: > https://www.w3.org/2019/02/07-i18n-minutes.html > richard: actually vertical text with 1 character per column is > really an urban myth I'm not sure about this. When you see 門生羅 (and not 羅生門, as it would be with LTR) at the top of a gate, the easiest way to explain why the characters are placed the way they are is that whoever wanted to write them was used to writing vertical lines (i.e. columns), with the columns going from right to left, but only was able to fit one character per 'line' (i.e. column). Of course, this was done rather implicitly and without calling each character a column. And we cannot go back to the people who wrote the name of a door on the top of a door in ancient times, but it's the best explanation we have so far. If you have a better one, I'd like to hear about it. > ... it's nonsensical It may be nonsensical (or not) as an approach to how to format it with CSS. It may also not apply to more 'modern' Chinese examples, in particular from Taiwan, where I think multiple-line RTL headings can also appear. Regards, Martin. > ... horizontal-tbrl was suggested > ... but that is inconsistent with writing modes > ... key issue is that japanese/chinese are strongly LTR > ... UBA relies on character properties > ... thinking is to use bidi override with direction=rtl > ... embedded numbers/text in <bdo> > ... but very similar to "close wrapping" recommendation we do > for normal bidi text
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