11518 – The U element should be reinstated. Although people using Western writing systems view it as merely decoration, in Chinese, the underline is a full-fledged punctuation mark, much like the comma, semicolon, or period. Because U is still the only element th

This is an archived snapshot of W3C's public bugzilla bug tracker, decommissioned in April 2019. Please see the home page for more details.

Bug 11518 - The U element should be reinstated. Although people using Western writing systems view it as merely decoration, in Chinese, the underline is a full-fledged punctuation mark, much like the comma, semicolon, or period. Because U is still the only element th

Summary: The U element should be reinstated. Although people using Western writing sys...

Status:	VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 10838

Alias:	None

Product:	HTML WG
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other other

Importance:	P3 normal
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact:	HTML WG Bugzilla archive list

URL:	http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords:

Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2010-12-09 21:55 UTC by contributor
Modified:	2011-08-04 05:17 UTC (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

See Also:

Attachments

Description contributor 2010-12-09 21:55:49 UTC

Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/spec.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#top

Comment:
The U element should be reinstated. Although people using Western writing
systems view it as merely decoration, in Chinese, the underline is a
full-fledged punctuation mark, much like the comma, semicolon, or period.
Because U is still the only element that can correctly fall back on text-mode
browsers, U is the only way to ensure that this punctuation mark is displayed
for Chinese authors who wish to use this punctuation mark.

Classifying the U element as "visual formatting" is the same as saying that
the quotation mark or the em-dash is merely visual formatting and therefore
should be deprecated. This does not make any sense at all.

Posted from: 209.195.116.228

Comment 1 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-12-09 22:05:08 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10838 ***

Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:17:20 UTC

mass-move component to LC1