ISSUE-2106: i18n comment 5: Characters and glyphs

Characters and glyphs

i18n comment 5: Characters and glyphs

State:

CLOSED

Product:

SVG 1.2 Tiny: Last Call

Raised by:

Doug Schepers

Opened on:

2008-10-10

Description:

Richard Ishida (i18n)
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2008Oct/0077.html>:
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Comment 5
At http://www.w3.org/International/reviews/0810-svg-tiny/
Editorial/substantive: E
Tracked by: RI

Location in reviewed document:
10.4 [httphttp://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/text.html#TextElement]

Comment:
"The 'text' element renders its first glyph (after bidirectionality reordering) at the initial current text position, which is established by the 'x' and 'y' attributes on the 'text' element (with possible adjustments due to the value of the 'text-anchor' property). After the glyph(s) corresponding to the given character is (are) rendered, the current text position is updated for the next character. In the simplest case, the new current text position is the previous current text position plus the glyphs' advance value."


I think this should say "the current text position is updated for the next glyph" not "character", since there are numerous scripts where a combining character combines to the left of the glyph for the base character or characters in left-to-right text (for a simple example, see the second para at http://rishida.net/scripts/myanmar/#vsplacement, where the second glyph from the left is displayed before the two characters that follow it). The current text makes it sound like most scripts are like English.

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1. RE: [1.2T-LC] i18n comment 5: Characters and glyphs (ISSUE-2106) (from ishida@w3.org on 2008-10-30)
2. Minutes October 30, 2008 telcon (from ed@opera.com on 2008-10-30)
3. SVG/profiles/1.2T doc-svgt12.html,NONE,1.1 (from cvsmail@w3.org on 2008-10-28)
4. Re: Logistics of Open Issues (from schepers@w3.org on 2008-10-16)
5. Re: [1.2T-LC] i18n comment 5: Characters and glyphs (ISSUE-2106) (from schepers@w3.org on 2008-10-10)
6. ISSUE-2106 (Characters and glyphs): i18n comment 5: Characters and glyphs [Last Call: SVG 1.2 Tiny ] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2008-10-10)

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