- From: Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 16:12:07 +0000
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 2/1/15 14:53, Dael Jackson wrote: > TabAtkins: One issue was about a handful of styles that browsers > have implemented but weren't in the draft since we cut > it down. I want to add the ones with high > interoperability. > TabAtkins: About 20 styles are implemented since they are > dependable for authors. > TabAtkins: The ones that aren't clear is the Tamil style, which is > only Firefox and this list: > <TabAtkins> afar, oromo, sidama, tigre [snip] > RESOLVED: Add to Counter Styles the additional styles supported by > 2+ browsers (per r12a's email), do not add the styles > supported by only one browser. AIUI, this implies that Tamil will be excluded from the predefined styles, as it is currently supported only by Firefox. I believe this would be a very unfortunate situation. Tamil is one of the nine basic scripts of India (see [1], for example): Bengali Devanagari Gujarati Gurmukhi Kannada Malayalam Oriya [Odia] Tamil Telugu These are the Indic-family scripts used (along with Latin script, for English, and the Perso-Arabic script for Urdu and Sindhi) to write the official state languages of India, and form a clear, well-understood set that are expected to be treated on an equal footing. To provide predefined counter styles for eight of these, and exclude the ninth, will appear arbitrary and capricious; will be confusing to authors; and may even lead to accusations of discrimination against one of India's major linguistic communities. Please reconsider the status of Tamil. The nine major Indian scripts should be supported as a set of equals, not divided into what will appear to be first- and second-class citizens. JK [1] http://www.acharya.gen.in:8080/multi_sys/intro_ind_lang.php
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