- From: Karl Ove Hufthammer <lister@huftis.org>
- Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 22:46:46 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
Daniel Yacob <locales@geez.org> wrote in
news:E17WMPK-0000Gh-00@geez.org:
> Is this truly the case that French, German, Norwegian, etc use
> simply A-Z and do not add their extra letters?
No, in Norwegian we use A-Å (A-Z, followed by Æ, Ø and Å). So when
you write
<ol lang="no"> <!-- or lang="nn" or "nb" -->
<li>First list item</li>
<li>Second list item</li>
...
</ol>
browsers *should* IMNSHO use A-Å. Also note that when a numbered
list is used in Norwegian, it should not be formatted as in
English:
1. First item
2. Second item
3. Third item
But instead like this:
1 First item
2 Second item
3 Third item
Similarly, the bullet ('*') should not be used in for unnumbered
lists in Norwegian. Instead, em-dashes should be used:
- First item
- Second item
- Third item
All this is something truly internationalised browsers could (and
should!) support.
--
Karl Ove Hufthammer
Received on Wednesday, 7 August 2002 16:47:16 UTC