W3C Internationalization (i18n) Activity @webi18n

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WEB I18N GAP FIXED: Noto font updates on Mac+Firefox Font display issues fixed in Nightly. For details see w3c.social/@webi18n/11148908…
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It is now possible to read character details more easily when reading about an orthography. See typo.social/@ri/111441464805… for details.
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New translation into French Les étiquettes de langues en HTML et XML (Language tags in HTML and XML) w3.org/International/article… Thanks to Gwendoline Clavé, Clavoline Traduction for providing this translation.
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WEB I18N GAP FIXED: Interoperable emphasis marks Chinese and Japanese natively indicate emphasis for inline text using a small mark above or below the characters in horizontal text and to the right/left in vertical text. Now supported, using CSS, in all 3 major browser engines.
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WEB I18N GAP FIXED: All 3 major browser engines now support the ability to create custom counter styles—a major step forward in enabling fully interoperable list numbering & other counters that enable local approaches, especially for languages with smaller speaker populations.
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WEB I18N GAP FIXED: <l·l> in Catalan signals a geminated /l/. The dot should NOT capitalise the 2nd L, eg. capitalisation of cancel·lar should produce Cancel·lar and not Cancel·Lar. This is now supported in all 3 major browser engines. Gap report: w3c.github.io/eurlreq/gap-an…
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WEB I18N GAP FIXED: All 3 major browser engines, Gecko, Blink, & WebKit, now support sending text direction of a field to the server using dirname. They also support changing the computed direction of a form field when set manually by a the user.
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INTERESTING I18N THREAD: Should CSS override font-style:oblique -14deg; with an italic font face, where one is available? github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/…
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WEB I18N GAP FIXED: By default, runs of Latin alphanumeric text are rotated 90º and run down the page. However, sometimes (eg. for acronyms) alphanumerics need to stand upright. This is now supported in all 3 major browser engines. Gap report: w3.org/TR/clreq-gap/#issue24…
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Just published: Korean Gap Analysis First Public Working Draft w3.org/TR/kore-gap/ This document explores gaps in Korean language support on the World Wide Web. Looking for contributors—see w3.org/International/i18n-dr…
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