- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 02:09:06 +0100
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
- Cc: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, "CSS WWW Style (www-style@w3.org)" <www-style@w3.org>, WWW International <www-international@w3.org>
* Anne van Kesteren wrote: >On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:36 AM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote: >> Five years ago, *sigh*... > >But but but cursor:progreß! As far as german is concerned, I rather doubt people expect `progreß` to match `progress`, including when spelled `PROGRESS`, even if this was an author-defined identifier. Expecting "encyclopædia" and "encyclopaedia" to match seems more likely. Note, for instance, that german "Schoss" and german "Schoß" refer to rather different concepts. And if you consider non-nouns there other plenty of examples where words differing only in the capitalisation of the first letter mean different things. Given that style sheets are typically 99% english, due to property names and micro- formats and metadata standards and third-party components and themes and so on and so forth, there is not much ground to expect non-english rules for matching identifiers in what amounts to an english data format... -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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