- From: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 11:06:16 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:18:21 +0200, Christoph Päper
<christoph.paeper@crissov.de> wrote:
> Liam R E Quin 2014-09-10:
>>
>>
>> French practice for a long time was to drop the accent.
>
> FWIW, German sometimes also dropped the diacritic but always by
> decomposing uppercase umlauts, i.e. ‹A›/‹O›/‹U› plus ‹e› or ‹E›, with
> the latter on the line. I think some years ago someone proposed an
> extension to ‘text-transform’ which could handle such cases.
You are probably referring to the proposal I made [1], which could be used
to define:
@text-transform diacritic-to-digraph {
transformation: "Ä Ö Ü" to "AE OE UE";
character-type: spaced;
}
[1] http://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/at-text-transform
If anyone is interested in bringing this back and finishing it, let me
know.
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- Florian
Received on Friday, 12 September 2014 09:06:43 UTC