Hi, Although in most use cases each <symbol> for counter styles is one character long, as far as I can tell the empty string or multi-character strings and identifiers are valid <symbol> values too. The 'width' descriptor is defined as counting <symbol> component values, not characters after concatenating the <symbol>s. Even ignoring image <symbols>s, this is probably better as it avoids the question of what is a character vs. combining character vs. grapheme cluster. Still, the spec for the 'width' descriptor should have a note calling this out explicitly. Something like: Note: the number of <symbol> component values can be different from the number of characters they form when concatenated. Also, the sentence "… where representations shorter than the width are padded with a particular character" should probably say "a particular <symbol>" instead. Even the initial value has an empty <symbol>. -- Simon SapinReceived on Tuesday, 12 March 2013 11:25:12 UTC
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