- From: Brad Kemper <brkemper.comcast@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 10:38:13 -0700
- To: Ambrose Li <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Cc: Joeri Sebrechts <joeri@sebrechts.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Aug 2, 2008, at 9:15 AM, "Ambrose Li" <ambrose.li@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2008/8/1 Joeri Sebrechts <joeri@sebrechts.net>: >> - There were suggestions earlier on to drop the ability to specify an >> alternate string to use instead of the ellipsis character, but I >> think this >> would be a handy feature because then you'd offer a way to deal >> with varying >> conventions on how a visual hint of obscured content must be >> rendered in >> different locales (e.g. chinese). > > The Chinese (and, if I understand it correctly, Japanese) ellipsis > has 6 dots, > or at least pedantically it still does. So, yes, it would be good to > see this (i.e., > ellipses that are not three dots) respected one way or another, > irrespective > of whether conventions for obscured content exist or not. If the convention does exist, shouldn't the appropriate character for the script in use be used? Thus a six dot ellipse (or six periods) automatically if using Chinese? > -- > cheers, > -ambrose > > The 'net used to be run by smart people; now many sites are run by > idiots. So SAD... (Sites that do spam filtering on mails sent to the > abuse contact need to be cut off the net...) >
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