Re: [css-text] Control characters

>> [...], but in short, 0x80-0x9F is handled at encoding layer and therefore we don’t have to worry about in CSS Text.
> 
> I don't follow this. U+0080 to U+009F are in Unicode and can be
> present in a document. Quite trivially so with utf-8. It's correct
> that windows-1252 would map the bytes of the same number to different
> code points, but I'm not sure how that would affect CSS.

There was a proposal to interpret C1 characters as graphics characters[1][2]. What I meant was to reject this proposal because the mapping is done at encoding layer, and once Unicode C1 characters appear in the DOM, they should be handled as control characters.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Mar/0490.html
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Mar/0501.html

/koji

Received on Friday, 27 June 2014 06:23:27 UTC