Re: Initial letter with accent

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.

-- 
  - Florian

Received on Friday, 12 September 2014 09:06:43 UTC