- From: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:23:54 -0700
- To: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Cc: Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Oct 5, 2010, at 9:16 PM, Ambrose LI wrote: > On 6 October 2010 00:07, Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com> wrote: >> Simon, >> You raise a good question. It is clear to me that the intent of "first-letter" is to include punctuation that precedes the first "real" letter. But, your case has introduced a space before the first "real" letter. This particular example does not seem to have a use case associated with it. Why would anyone put a space in a "first-letter" situation without the intent that the space terminate the "first-letter" handling. For that reason, I would say that Opera has the correct answer. But, if someone can provide a use case for your example, I would consider it. > > I suppose a trivial typographically valid use case would be an opening > quotation mark in French. When French guillemets are used, the opening > guillemet should always be followed by a space before the real first > letter appears. A non-breaking space, according to wikipedia. So here's another case with no interop: <div>« T »test</div> Simon
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