- From: Florian Rivoal <florianr@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:23:41 +0900
- To: "Alex Danilo" <alex@abbra.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:19:35 +0900, Alex Danilo <alex@abbra.com> wrote: > Hi Florian & Fantasai, > > --Original Message--: >> On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:32:51 +0900, fantasai >> <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: >> >>> For the various pictographic and geometric symbols, what is an >>> appropriate setting? Should the snowman be upright or sideways? >>> Does this depend on CJK vs. Latin context, or is it a stylistic >>> preference, or does everybody just want them upright? >> >> I have a hard time thinking of anybody wanting them other than upright. > > I disagree. > > I think it depends on CJK vs. Latin context for sure. > > If I've got a string of Latin talking about winter and snowmen and stick > one in the middle of the Latin text which is rotated 90 degrees, I'd > expect > the snowman to take on the rotation of the Latin content so it can be > read > with your head rotated sideways. I'd expect it to stay upright, because despite the fact that this is encoded as a character, it is more a little picture that a piece of text. I'll accept that this a personal opinion, not the universal expectation, so I'll switch from "always upright" to "stylistic preference", my personal preference being upright regardless of language. - Florian
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