- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 22:53:22 -0700
- To: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
On 05/03/2012 10:49 PM, Ambrose LI wrote: > 2012/5/4 fantasai<fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>: >> On 05/03/2012 08:08 AM, Ambrose LI wrote: >>> >>> But then what is the purpose of keep-all then? If I just read that >>> description quoted above I’d assume it *is* the “explicit action” that >>> I needed. >> >> The purpose of keep-all is to keep consecutive CJK characters together, >> whereas normally they are allowed to break anywhere. >> >> This is common in Korean, which, like English, uses spaces to separate >> words. >> >> It is also sometimes useful for mixed-script text, where zh/ja snippets >> are mixed into another language that uses spaces for separation. > > Hmm, I guess I remember asking this exact same question before. I > didn’t understand back then, and I’m afraid I still don’t understand. > > The need to have keep-all functionality in Latin text is as real as > that in CJK text. Why are the two kinds of scripts treated so > differently? I mean, this is an override; why can’t we have a > consistent way to override? This makes no sense to me. Latin *already* keeps consecutive letters together. What do you mean here? ~fantasai
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