Ian Hickson wrote:
Summary: I've made the spec require that any punctuation for <q> be
included inside the element; I've added examples for <q>.
> ...
How would you define CSS pseudo-elements for open and close quotes in
such a way that they would be implementable and would not match
apostrophes and would correctly differentiate between open and close
quotes in languages that use the same character for opening and closing
and in languages that invert the direction of guillemets compared to
French?
I would introduce two pseudo-elements, ::quote-start and ::quote-end,
which match one or more characters with the Quotation_Mark property (as
per Unicode PropList) found at the start or end of an element, if such
text is a direct child of the element (skipping White_Space characters).
I've started this idea down the path of the CSS working group.
Please send a message with your proposal to www-style for discussion and
CC www-international. (We use the wiki to track issues, not as a substitute
for mailing list discussion. Also, it would be important to have i18n people
involved since punctuation styles vary across languages and I'm not sure
Unicode's Quotation_Mark property is adequate.)
~fantasai
