Re: [css-fonts] Chinese font Kai count as cursive

Hello,

I'd like to follow this issue up because it was discussed in i18n telecon [1].

I've provided extra information to i18n discussion [2].

I tested font-family: cursive in major browsers. IE, Safari, Opera and Chrome will show Chinese texts with Biaukai（標楷）by default (and oblique).

If possible, could we edit the describe on CSS Text Module Level 3 to make it consistent?

Bobby

[1]: http://www.w3.org/2014/09/25-i18n-minutes.html

[2]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2014JulSep/0332.html

> Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com> 於 2013年11月16日 上午12:18 寫道：
> 
> 2013/11/15 Stewart Baker <bakersc@mail.wou.edu>:
>> Cursive, according to the OED, means "written with a running hand," i.e.
>> without lifting the writing implement between strokes.
>> 
>> "Written with a running hand, so that the characters are rapidly formed
>> without raising the pen, and in consequence have their angles rounded, and
>> separate strokes joined, and at length become slanted."
>> 
>> Like John, I'm not sure matters of a single line definition of the word
>> "cursive" are of earth-shattering import.  However, it is the case that
>> cursive is (technically) more a matter of style than formality, so changing
>> to "flowing" or something similar might make sense.  （Although not italic,
>> as they aren't really synonyms.  Cursive is often italic, but italic is not
>> always cursive.  Since there is already an italic in HTML, it might be best
>> to drop any comparison to that.)
>> 
> 
> Indeed cursive is not always italic (I mentioned this), but true
> italics—as opposed to obliques—are always cursive.
> 
> I don’t usually side with Wikipedia editing policy in these matters,
> but in terms of typographic knowledge the OED is not a credible
> source.
> 
> -- 
> cheers,
> -ambrose <http://gniw.ca>

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