- From: Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:57:04 +0200
- To: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>, public-i18n-core@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
Leif Halvard Silli, Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:03:03 +0200:
> Daniel Glazman, Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:23:14 +0200:
>> Le 11/04/11 16:11, Leif Halvard Silli a écrit :
> Fantasai said she was in lack of conclusion. Since she is a spec
> editor, I offer the conclusion that we could document the issues. And
> by, "issues", I mean summarize/list the affected letters. And also to
> describe *when* it is likely to be an issue, such as when linking to
> files - which for instance affect a:visited{}.
There is a file at www.UNICODE.org which I believe lists the affected
characters. [1] Expressing the essence of that list, in light of CSS,
with some humanly readable words, would be a good start. (And perhaps
creating a tool by which the author can check if his/her letters are
affected.)
The list e.g. contains 81 instance of "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH".
But only 4 instances of "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F WITH". So vocals are
more frequently affected than consonants ...
And 16% of the letters on that list are mathematical signs. Seldom
found in file names.
If there existed a hypertext version of that list, with some logical
ToC etc, then CSS specs could just list to that file instead of
describing things itself.
The problem description "normalization" is too huge. It must be broken
down to concrete issues that really matter. E.g. even if there are 81
capital letter A with a diacritic, the concrete author often only has
to deal with two (that is: one upper/lower case letter) per
text/language.
[1] http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/DerivedNormalizationProps.txt
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