- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:15:59 +0200
- To: Xidorn Quan <quanxunzhen@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On 08/25/2015 02:59 PM, Xidorn Quan wrote: > Hi, > > I propose that we should add "text-orientation: upright" to the > "rt:lang(zh-TW)" rule. > > The reason is that, all the tone marks in bopomofo (U+02CA, U+02C7, > U+02CB, U+02D9) have Vertical_Orientation property "R" while the > bopomofo characters are all "U". It means, without explicitly setting > text-orientation to upright, the text run would break between them, > which makes it impossible to use font feature to place the tone mark > properly. I think it would make more sense to have Unicode update UTR50 to make these characters upright in mixed-orientation text (or otherwise tailor it within CSS as a whole). It's not just a problem with ruby. ~fantasai
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