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CJK features — Ruby & more #872

Open stubbornella opened 1 month ago

stubbornella commented 1 month ago

Description

Ruby annotations are essential for Japanese language learners to be able to sound out words they do not already know. However they have historically had poor support on the web. This focus area is to improve the typography of Ruby annotations so they are useable by children and other Japanese language learners. This proposal includes:

It does not include ruby-merge

Specification

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-ruby-1/

Additional Signals

Ruby bugs cause readability issues in web based books.

yisibl commented 1 month ago

Note that the latest Ruby specification is here: https://github.com/w3c/html-ruby

yisibl commented 1 month ago

The Ruby implementation leaves a lot to be desired.

A couple of key features are still missing:

yisibl commented 1 month ago

I would suggest that this title be changed to focus on Ruby, and that text-transform could open a new issue separately.

stubbornella commented 1 month ago

I'm open to that. Thanks for the suggestions of other APIs to include.