> От: David Carlisle <[email protected]> > Дата: 17 сентября 2010 г. 12:39:56 Тихоокеанское летнее время > Кому: Alexey Proskuryakov <[email protected]> > Тема: Ответ: [webkit-dev] Fwd: HTML5 & MathML3 entities > > On 17/09/2010 19:58, Alexey Proskuryakov wrote: > the list is closed to non subscribers, could you forward, thanks, >> >> This certainly sounds like it was a mistake originally, but in practice, >> this meant that ⟩ and ⟨ were rendered as CJK characters by >> browsers. U+27E8 looks differently (and is possibly treated differently >> by screen readers), and it's this change in behavior that I find >> unfortunate. > > well (as you'll be aware) what the glyph looks like depends on what fonts > used. general text fonts (that are supporting the CJK ranges) would have this > effect but math fonts in uniocde layout typically use the opposite choice for > the old character, and math renderers (including if I remember correctly > mozilla's original mathml support) that map unicode slots to "legacy" 8 bit > math font encodings (eg the TeX or mathematica fonts) also rendered these > things to match the math operators. lang and rang names were clearly > originally intended to mean > left and right math angle brackets, coming from the ISO math entity sets. So > given, as you say, that some change was inevitable, taking the math choice is > I still think the right one, although any change has some costs, I agree. > > David >
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