This seems like a discusion that should take place in the HTML working group.
Adam On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Alexey Proskuryakov <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> 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 >> > > - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
