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[css-text] Connected scripts should behave like cursive scripts #3566
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https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-3/#cursive-tracking
“if the UA cannot expand text from a cursive script without breaking its cursive connections, it must not apply spacing between any pair of that script’s typographic letter units at all (effectively treating each word as a single typographic letter unit for the purpose of letter-spacing).”
Devanagari isn't "cursive" but it is "connected." It should probably behave like the above quote describes. Therefore, the spec should probably switch the word "cursive" with the word "connected."
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litherum commentedon Jan 29, 2019
cc @r12a @fantasai
litherum commentedon Jan 29, 2019
Also: Is the identification of script supposed to be done by
lang=or by code point or by font?nedley commentedon Jan 29, 2019
Devanagari allows for letter spacing.
fantasai commentedon Jan 29, 2019
What @nedley said, and per code point, see https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/#character-properties and https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/#script-groups (I could have sworn I had more categories in that last appendix. Excuse me while I do some archaeology...)
litherum commentedon Jun 19, 2019
After further discussion inside Apple, it appears that this issue would better be served by content evangelization, rather than a CSS spec change.
[css-text-3] Clarify that connected Indic scripts are not cursive. #3566