- From: Xidorn Quan <quanxunzhen@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:13:01 +1100
- To: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org> wrote: > On 18/02/2014 12:57, Xidorn Quan wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> The spec says that, the 'pad' counts the number of symbols, not >> characters. I suggest to change it to counting characters. I have two >> reasons: >> >> 1. It is not very useful to count symbols. There are many styles use >> multi-character symbols. If people want to build a constant-width >> style based on such styles with pad, they will find it impossible as >> pad counts symbols. >> 2. For some predefined styles, such as the Chinese ideographic styles, >> it is hard to say how many symbols are there, and explicitly defining >> the partition is meaningless while increases the burden of >> implementation. >> >> Consequently, I propose changing counting symbols to counting >> characters for pad. > > > "Character" is unfortunately ambiguous. Would this count Unicode code > points? Grapheme clusters? Something else? > > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-text/#grapheme-cluster Counting grapheme clusters should be reasonable.
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