On 21 September 2011 19:50, Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com> wrote: > I'm attending the W3C MultilingualWeb Workshop in Limeric, Ireland, > and a rather good question emerged related to the <em> element: > > should the <em> element be rendered using ‘text-emphasis-style' > instead of 'font-style: italic' for East Asian languages using the > :lang() pseudo? In theory default styling for <em> should depend on typographic and typesetting traditions for various languages. Although maybe it should be writing script based. Italicizing makes sense for Latin and Cyrillic script languages and modern Greek. From memory there are articles on typesetting Greek that indicate that a traditional way of emphasizing Greek text include increasing inter-letter spacing. Some south east asian scripts use underlining to emphasize text, For scripts change of text colour, font weight or typeface could be used to emphasis text. Its worth noting that most writing scripts have no tradition of italic or oblique typefaces, this will be reflected in the fonts available on various operating systems. The default styling of the em element is rather euro-centric. But then the default rendering of quite a few html elements fall into the same category. -- Andrew Cunningham Senior Project Manager, Research and Development Vicnet State Library of Victoria Australia andrewc@vicnet.net.au lang.support@gmail.comReceived on Thursday, 22 September 2011 04:37:29 UTC
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