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Relevant gap analysis documents include: _Catalan_
This issue is applicable to Catalan.
The sequence <l·l> in Catalan orthography signals a geminated /l/ sound. The midpoint dot should not lead to capitalisation of the second l. For example, a capitalisation of cancel·lar should produce Cancel·lar and not Cancel·Lar.
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This punctuation mark is also used in a similar way for other languages, though between different letters. See examples.
The GAP
Blink and Webkit both do the right thing here, but Gecko produces Cancel·Lar.
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Priority
This is a significant problem for Catalan users wanting to apply text-transform:capitalize. However, that is not something users do particularly frequently. Therefore marking this as Advanced.
Tests & results
Interactive test, text-transform:capitalize doesn't uppercase a word-medial long L in Catalan, whether written as 2 or 3 characters
Interactive test, text-transform:capitalize doesn't uppercase a word-medial letter following middle dot in words from various languages.
Action taken
Gecko • dup Gecko
Outcomes
Gecko fixed this in version 116.