Re: controlling digits substitution in IE/FF (Arabic/Hindi/Decimal)

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 6:27 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>wrote:

> In my opinion, the browser should not be doing any such substitution
> in web pages. Although the browser's UI should be affected by system
> localization, web pages displayed in it should not. If CSS needs to
> have controls to enable these kinds of transformations, then we can
> add them to the 'text-transform' property. But by default, I don't
> think it makes sense for this kind of automatic substitution to affect
> web page content.
>

We actually support this in Gecko via the hidden bidi.numeral pref (and have
basically forever).

Rob
-- 
"He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are
healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his
own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah
53:5-6]

Received on Friday, 15 May 2009 02:48:45 UTC