[css3-lists] Remaining feedback on the module

When I started working on Lists, Hixie sent me the collected feedback
he'd received since 2002.  I've now processed the majority of that
feedback into spec edits, but I've got a couple of items still left,
which I'll summarize in this email.  If anyone has direct feedback on
these items, or can hook me up with people who might have relevant
feedback, please let me know!

1. I need to add some south asian systems.  The W3C's Indian i18n
group started responding about this a little while ago, but stopped
responding to my requests for clarification.  I need to restart talks
with them.

2. Greek styles are incomplete.  I've got a big chunk of greek
feedback that I haven't properly processed yet.  >_<

3. Are my current arabic/persian/urdu/etc systems sufficient, or are
there differences that I'm not currently capturing?

4. Apparently Koranic verse has a particular numbering scheme
different from general arabic/etc numbering.  Can anyone confirm this
and/or describe it for me?

5. I'm told there's a Hebrew alphabetic system: "This uses the Hebrew
letters without final
forms, i.e. U05D0-U05EA excluding U05DA, U05DD, U05DF, U05E3 and
U05E5".  I'd like some confirmation that this exists and is used,
along with some confirmation of the given definition.

6. Should I add more european alphabetic styles, like a german one
that includes umlauts?  I've heard conflicting feedback (from Hakon, I
believe) saying that I should instead drop the alternate european
styles that currently exist, as list numbering is typically done using
just the base english alphabet.

7. Are Aegean (U+10107-10133), Shavian (U+10450-1047F), and Ugaritic
(U+10380-1039D) things I should address?  I dunno if these are living
or dead scripts.

8. Should I allow custom negative signs to be defined?  Right now all
the numeric styles just use hyphen-minus.  Do any languages require a
different negative sign?

9. Is there any real usage of the circled-decimal and
filled-circled-decimal ranges?  Unicode6 extends the ranges a bit, but
I'm mostly trying to limit the predefined styles to things that are
actually used by people.

10. Should I add a magic type that select the appropriate predefined
alphabetic counter-style based on the @lang of the element?

11. Apparently, at least some hebrew books number their pages with a
simpler additive system which just uses the the characters associated
with 1-9, 10-90, and 100-400, then just repeats TAV (the character for
400) repeatedly for larger numbers (so 1100 would be תתש, rather than
א׳ק).  Can I switch to *just* this system (allowing me to eliminate
the special definition of Hebrew in favor of a simple @counter-style
rule), or is there still a good case for the current definition?

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 19 April 2011 22:00:13 UTC