Re: @font-face and unicode-range

• From: Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) <P.Taylor@Rhul.Ac.Uk>
• Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:48:59 +0100
• To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
• CC: www-style@w3.org
• Message-ID: <4A2430AB.9000307@Rhul.Ac.Uk>

Håkon Wium Lie wrote:

 > Using names humanizes the unicode-range descriptor. However, I'd like
 > to avoid the need for quote marks. The list you refer to is quite
 > stable, and there's no need for arbitrary additions. So, why not allow these:
 >
 >   unicode-range: basic-latin;
 >
 > instead of
 >
 >   unicode-range: "Basic Latin";

I like the careful use of string quotes here; use
when the string is arbitrary, omit when the set
of strings is fixed.  A convention that HTML could
usefully adopt, IMHO.

Philip Taylo

Received on Monday, 1 June 2009 19:49:51 UTC