- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 21:22:20 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com>
On 05/19/2015 12:20 AM, fantasai wrote: > Jonathan Kew wrote: >> What's less clear, IMO, is how to handle the complex Indic scripts >> where reordering and clustering behavior is involved. > > Yes, this is a fair criticism. I think the default behavior should > be to break the text into grapheme clusters, and render each upright > individually. For cases where this is known to be incorrect, and > more correct rules are known (e.g. per-syllable), then those rules > override this default rule. > >> I agree there are gaps in our knowledge of how best to render some >> scripts in this mode, but rather than weakening the current spec >> text, which I think is OK as far as it goes, perhaps we should >> just have a note that the behavior of complex scripts such as >> Indic and SE Asian in vertical upright is not clearly defined yet. > > Again, agreed. And we should add that note. :) I rebased the Writing Modes spec on the definition "typographic character unit" from CSS3 Text: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text/#characters Let me know if you think we need further clarification. ~fantasai
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