i18n-ISSUE-140: Multilingual q nesting

7.1. Inserting quotes with the 'content' property
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css3-content-20030514/#specifying



I'm wondering whether we need a way to reset the embedding levels of quotes.

Here's the reason:

If you have the following CSS:

:lang(en) > * { quotes: '"' '"' "'" "'"; }
:lang(no) > * { quotes: "«" "»" '"' '"' }

And you have

<p lang=no>Some Norwegian text <q>more norwegian <q>more 
norwegian</q></q>.</p>

You'd expect to see

Some Norwegian text «more norwegian "more norwegian"».

which perfectly fine.

But if you had

<p lang=en>Some English text <q lang=no>Some norwegian <q>more
norwegian</q></q>.</p>

Then I think you'd see

Some English text "Some norwegian "more norwegian"".

I'd have thought that the quotes surrounding the text 'more norwegian' 
here should be surrounded by «...». This could maybe be done by a rule 
that says that if a q element carries a lang attribute, the next 
embedded q attribute should use the highest level quote marks.

Or perhaps it needs some attribute to reset the levels?

In addition, maybe that would also give you more control over how the 
quotes are used in other situations (such as to replicate the original 
text) - although perhaps that's best achieved using special class names 
or just by avoiding q altogether.


[Reviewed by the i18n WG]

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Richard Ishida
Internationalization Activity Lead
W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)

http://www.w3.org/International/
http://rishida.net/

Received on Wednesday, 29 February 2012 19:02:26 UTC