- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:38:08 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai@inkedblade.net>, W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>
Koji Ishii wrote: > U+2030 PER MILLE SIGN does not have its full-width counterpart > and therefore it is the code point to map from East Asian > legacy encodings for Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese. > You type "per mille" (in Japanese Kana) in Japanese Windows and > you'll get U+2030. Word sets it upright. InDesign sets it > upright too. So setting it sideways just breaks all existing > documents and make HTML/CSS hard to display existing documents. > > But U+2030 is "General" punctuation, not East Asian > punctuation, so setting it upright doesn't work for non-East > Asian context. "Use-font" is the idea fantasai and I came up to > solve this issue, but I'd be very happy if anyone has any other > idea to solve this issue. One more note. Effectively, both apps are defining U+2030 as upright *not* as the functional equivalent of your "use font" category. The logic in the spec would make this upright, your proposed logic based on the existence of a vertical alternate would set this sideways (since vertical alternates don't normally exist for this codepoint). John
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