- From: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:35:42 -0800 (PST)
- To: koba <koba@antenna.co.jp>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, MURATA Makoto <eb2m-mrt@asahi-net.or.jp>
Tokushige Kobayashi wrote:
> Yes, I understand your position, but I am opposite for the concept.
> The intrinsic direction of all characters shall be upright. Only the
> direction of punctuation and graphic symbols may be sideways.
>
> The sideway of latin alphabet in vertical text is bad writing manner
> in Japanese text.
Interesting. The general rule of thumb in Japan actually seems to be
based on the length of the Latin string, once the string gets beyond a
certain length, it's always displayed rotated. So "iPhone" typically
appears upright but "iSoftbank" appears rotated. I'm not arguing
that's aesthetically better, just that it's a common pattern.
In the past I argued that CSS should allow a way to customize the
default orientation. For example,
@text-orientation {
upright: u+2000:24ff; /* all symbols are upright */
}
Elika and Koji felt this wasn't necessary at this level.
Regards,
John Daggett
Received on Monday, 16 January 2012 08:36:45 UTC