[counter-styles] i18n-ISSUE-339: Should Japanese spec styles match implementations or vice versa?

[Richard Ishida]

[cc public-i18n-cjk and unicode at unicode.org to get some more eyes on this]

I don't think you revised the algorithm either. I think this discrepancy 
has been around for a long time.

As Xidorn points out, we're talking here about characters that, yes, 
exist in the kana set, but that are not often used or not often used in 
this context.

That said, this whole spec is about being able to customise these lists 
however you want. So in a sense the list of characters described in the 
spec is a kind of default.

So I'm wondering whether, in that case, it's best to just document the 
exisiting implementations, and allow people to modify the list if they 
want.  Unless you have a list of over 44 items you won't meet the 
problem anyway.

Just thinking out loud, really.

RI



On 14/02/2014 23:18, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Richard Ishida <ishida at w3.org> wrote:
>> 6.2 Alphabetic: lower-alpha, lower-latin, upper-alpha, upper-latin,
>> lower-greek, hiragana, hiragana-iroha, katakana, katakana-iroha
>> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-counter-styles/#simple-alphabetic
>>
>> The hiragana, katakana, hiragana-iroha, and katakana-iroha seem to be
>> implemented in the same way in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and now Opera. The
>> implementation differs from the spec only by the addition of one or two
>> characters to the basic set.
>>
>> Should we change the spec to align with the implementations?
>>
>> For more information see the test results at
>> http://www.w3.org/International/tests/repository/css3-counter-styles/predefined-styles/results-cstyles#simplealpha
>
> It's weird that the spec differs from implementations.  I don't
> *think* I revised those algorithms at all.
>
> I'd prefer to go ahead and match implementations unless they're totally off.
>
> ~TJ
>