- From: Phillips, Addison <addison@lab126.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 15:18:48 +0000
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- CC: "CSS WWW Style (www-style@w3.org)" <www-style@w3.org>, "www-international@w3.org" <www-international@w3.org>
> > > > However, this brings up an issue: what about the visible "spaces", e.g. > > Ethiopic Word Space U+1361? Should those also be skipped if the style > > you're going for is skipping spaces between words? Or do people not > > skip visible word separators the way we sometimes skip spaces in our > > underlining? > > Ok, so the final text at the moment says to skip: > * all characters in Unicode general category Z > * all "word separator" characters, as defined in CSS3 Text: > currently includes the space (U+0020), the no-break space (U+00A0), > the Ethiopic word space (U+1361), the Aegean word separators > (U+10100,U+10101), > the Ugaritic word divider (U+1039F), the Phoenician Word Separator > (U+1091F) > > Comments welcome. > Hi fantasai, I've written to Unicode as part of I18N-ACTION-192 to ask for their thoughts and have received a number of replies, which I'll collate for Thursday's teleconference. Addison Addison Phillips Globalization Architect (Lab126) Chair (W3C I18N WG) Internationalization is not a feature. It is an architecture.
Received on Wednesday, 6 March 2013 15:19:17 UTC