Justin Wood (Callek) wrote:
Robert O'Callahan wrote:
We break runs of CJK ideographs between certain ideograph pairs using
some standard algorithm. We suppress this breaking in runs that are
white-space:pre. On one hand, that means authors using white-space to
prevent breaking in regular text also have it working by analogy in CJK
text. On the other hand, it makes no sense; there is no whitespace here
for white-space to act upon. What's correct?
Well I'm not expert about that but I just had a look in the CSS2 norm,
and you can find this about using 'white-space: pre' :
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/text.html#white-space-prop
[...] Lines are only broken at newlines in the source, or at
occurrences of "\A" in generated content.
So it seems the current implementation is correct.
Without me having much (if anything) to add to this conversation, do you
have any testcases to run on other UA's, such as IE, Opera, Safari,
(others?) to see how interoperable this functionality is.
I'd personally suggest <pre>; and <div style="whitespace:pre"> tests
seperate.
Shifting the topic a bit, currently using <pre>, and therefore also
text/plain, breaks a lot of i18n features. It's not nice when combining
character stop to combine and I believe strange things also happen for
bidi. So I'm all for roc changing things to that regard, and make it
work better, current behavior is not satisfying at all generally, even
if that particular point seems correct.
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