- From: Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:19:42 +0000
- To: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
[Simon Pieters:]
>
> "To avoid mistakes in escaping, it is recommended to quote font family
> names that contain white space, digits, or punctuation characters other
> than hyphens:"
>
> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/#propdef-font-family
> http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/fonts.html#font-family-prop
>
> What mistake in escaping can one do when a font family name contains
> whitespace? Whitespace doesn't need escaping (unless a font has something
> funny like a tab character or two subsequent spaces, but such fonts don't
> exist). Unquoted font family names with spaces work fine. Don't recommend
> quoting them.
>
> Unescaped unquoted font family names that start with a digit or contain
> punctuation characters other than hyphen will break *even if there is no
> whitespace*.
>
> Suggested wording:
>
> To avoid mistakes in escaping, it is recommended to quote font family
> names that contain words that start with digits or contains punctuation
> characters other than hyphens:
>
> body { font-family: "Amalgamate O (outlined)", serif }
>
> <BODY STYLE="font-family: '21st Century', fantasy">
>
> --
My understanding is that this was good general advice since unquoted font
family names may be somewhat more ambiguous in the font shorthand.
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