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Re: [css3-text] comments on text-transform

From: Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:49:02 +0200
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To: W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>
John Daggett:
> 
> 1. Value renamings
> 
> I think these two values should be renamed back to their previous
> value names.

You think “fullwidth” and “full-width” are different things that should be distinguished by a hyphen? Even if they were, a normal author wouldn’t know and would constantly misspell the one or the other.

> 2. Clear indication that this property involves character transformation
> 
> … I think there needs to be clear wording that defines text-transform as a character-level transform, as opposed to a glyph level transform via OpenType.

I believe I’ve explained earlier this year that I don’t think this is necessarily so.

> (e.g. line breaking will be different with 'fullwidth').

That’s why this value is a bad idea in the first place and shouldn’t be done in CSS.
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