W3C Internationalization, i18n
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Posts related to the Worldwide Web Consortium's Internationalization Activity.
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- a disjunctive eta in a Greek sentence keeps its tonos diacritic
This behaviour is now interoperable across WebKit, Gecko, and Blink browsers.
More details: www.w3.org/TR/grek-gap/...
This behaviour is now interoperable across WebKit, Gecko, and Blink browsers.
More details: www.w3.org/TR/grek-gap/...
April 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
- a disjunctive eta in a Greek sentence keeps its tonos diacritic
This behaviour is now interoperable across WebKit, Gecko, and Blink browsers.
More details: www.w3.org/TR/grek-gap/...
This behaviour is now interoperable across WebKit, Gecko, and Blink browsers.
More details: www.w3.org/TR/grek-gap/...
WEB I18N GAP PROGRESS: Support for extra spacing between Chinese/Japanese and Western text
Safari 18.4 supports text-autospace:ideograph-alpha ideograph-numeric;
Safari 18.4 supports text-autospace:ideograph-alpha ideograph-numeric;
April 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM
WEB I18N GAP PROGRESS: Support for extra spacing between Chinese/Japanese and Western text
Safari 18.4 supports text-autospace:ideograph-alpha ideograph-numeric;
Safari 18.4 supports text-autospace:ideograph-alpha ideograph-numeric;
WEB I18N GAP FIXED: “Writing-modes sideways values not implemented”
With the release of Safari 18.4 all major desktop browsers now interoperably support the sideways-lr and sideways-rl values of CSS writing-mode.
With the release of Safari 18.4 all major desktop browsers now interoperably support the sideways-lr and sideways-rl values of CSS writing-mode.
April 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
WEB I18N GAP FIXED: “Writing-modes sideways values not implemented”
With the release of Safari 18.4 all major desktop browsers now interoperably support the sideways-lr and sideways-rl values of CSS writing-mode.
With the release of Safari 18.4 all major desktop browsers now interoperably support the sideways-lr and sideways-rl values of CSS writing-mode.
March 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
WEB I18N GAP FIXED: “Glyphs for characters in other blocks incorrectly falling back to system font”
Adlam and N'Ko text is now rendered in all major browsers without the Arabic punctuation marks being displayed in a different font.
See www.w3.org/TR/adlm-gap/...
Adlam and N'Ko text is now rendered in all major browsers without the Arabic punctuation marks being displayed in a different font.
See www.w3.org/TR/adlm-gap/...
March 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
WEB I18N GAP FIXED: “Glyphs for characters in other blocks incorrectly falling back to system font”
Adlam and N'Ko text is now rendered in all major browsers without the Arabic punctuation marks being displayed in a different font.
See www.w3.org/TR/adlm-gap/...
Adlam and N'Ko text is now rendered in all major browsers without the Arabic punctuation marks being displayed in a different font.
See www.w3.org/TR/adlm-gap/...
WEB I18N GAP FIXED: “Grapheme clusters fail to represent syllabic conjuncts in Bengali, Devanagari, and Gujarati”
Orthographic syllables involving virama now treated as a single grapheme cluster for Bengali, Devanagari, and Gujarati in the latest versions of the Gecko, Blink, and Webkit engines.
Orthographic syllables involving virama now treated as a single grapheme cluster for Bengali, Devanagari, and Gujarati in the latest versions of the Gecko, Blink, and Webkit engines.
February 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
WEB I18N GAP FIXED: “Grapheme clusters fail to represent syllabic conjuncts in Bengali, Devanagari, and Gujarati”
Orthographic syllables involving virama now treated as a single grapheme cluster for Bengali, Devanagari, and Gujarati in the latest versions of the Gecko, Blink, and Webkit engines.
Orthographic syllables involving virama now treated as a single grapheme cluster for Bengali, Devanagari, and Gujarati in the latest versions of the Gecko, Blink, and Webkit engines.
WEB I18N GAP FIXED: “:dir lacks wide support”
When designing/adapting style sheets for languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Dhivehi, Fula (Adlam)... the :dir() pseudo-class allows content authors to style RTL text in the same style sheet as other languages, significantly improving convenience.
When designing/adapting style sheets for languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Dhivehi, Fula (Adlam)... the :dir() pseudo-class allows content authors to style RTL text in the same style sheet as other languages, significantly improving convenience.
January 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
WEB I18N GAP FIXED: “:dir lacks wide support”
When designing/adapting style sheets for languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Dhivehi, Fula (Adlam)... the :dir() pseudo-class allows content authors to style RTL text in the same style sheet as other languages, significantly improving convenience.
When designing/adapting style sheets for languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Urdu, Dhivehi, Fula (Adlam)... the :dir() pseudo-class allows content authors to style RTL text in the same style sheet as other languages, significantly improving convenience.
WEB I18N GAP FIXED: Mongolian characters incorrectly rotated and not joining in vertical text
It is now possible to view vertical Mongolian text with joined up letters in the expected orientation, by default, in WebKit browsers. This brings it in line with Blink and Gecko engines.
It is now possible to view vertical Mongolian text with joined up letters in the expected orientation, by default, in WebKit browsers. This brings it in line with Blink and Gecko engines.
November 28, 2024 at 11:36 AM
WEB I18N GAP FIXED: Mongolian characters incorrectly rotated and not joining in vertical text
It is now possible to view vertical Mongolian text with joined up letters in the expected orientation, by default, in WebKit browsers. This brings it in line with Blink and Gecko engines.
It is now possible to view vertical Mongolian text with joined up letters in the expected orientation, by default, in WebKit browsers. This brings it in line with Blink and Gecko engines.