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Documenting gaps and requirements for support of Indic languages on the Web and in eBooks.
https://w3c.github.io/iip/
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Devanagari: 3.9.2 Default quotation marks in a new language section - clarification needed for this requirement #31

Open alolita opened 5 years ago

alolita commented 5 years ago

https://w3c.github.io/iip/gap-analysis/deva-gap.html#q_section

Section 2.6.2: Default quotation marks in a new language section: "In addition, the default quotation marks for the q element are not set to the appropriate characters by the browser when the element appears inside a Hindi/Marathi section of a page that has a different overall language. This is currently per the HTML specification (both W3C and WhatWG). There is an issue raised against the WhatWG version for this to be changed."

It is unclear as to why the HTML spec is supporting quotation marks, blockquotes for Devanagari.

@r12a - can you clarify this requirement?

r12a commented 5 years ago

I think clarification of this depends on the answer to https://github.com/w3c/iip/issues/29