Internationalization Comments on WebCGM 2.1
Version reviewed: http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-webcgm21-20080917/WebCGM21-Config.html#ACI-fontmap
Lead reviewer and date of initial review: Richard Ishida, Nov 2008
Subject lead in: [WebCGM2.1]
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| ID | Location | Subject | Comment | Owner | Ed. / Subs. |
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| 1 | 9.3.2.2 | typo: substitutionList |
substitutionList="CDATA" should be bolded |
RI | E | ||
| 2 | 9.3.2.2 | CSS2 rules |
"The list syntax and normalization are derived from the specifications of CSS 2.0 [CSS20]. In particular, the values and syntax of the substitutionList attribute are derived from CSS's definition of the font-family property " It is unclear where these rules are in CSS2, ie. whether there are more than in the font-family section, given the use of the phrase 'in particular'. If so, we couldn't find where. |
RI | E | ||
| 3 | 9.3.2.2 | Different normalizations |
Why is the normalization for cgmFont different from that for substitutionList? |
RI | S | ||
| 4 | 9.3.2.2 | Stripping out all whitespace |
For cgmFont normalization, do you mean "stripping out all whitespace" or normalizing white-space to a single space, as per substitutionList? |
RI | S | ||
| 5 | 9.3.2.2 | ISOLatin1 |
"These normalization rules are applicable for font names specified using the characters of ISOLatin1. They will likely be inapplicable for font names specified using other non-Latin characters." What happens in the case of Latin-2 (Eastern Europe), which is similar to Latin1 but contains a few additional characters. Does a single non-Latin1 character cause normalization to be abandoned for the whole string? It seems like the only thing that wouldn't apply to all non-Latin1 font names is converting to lower-case, though that is still a relevant consideration for many other Latin characters outside Latin1, and for Armenian, Greek and Cyrillic. Why restrict to Latin1? |
RI | E/S | ||
| 6 | 9.3.2.2 | Unicode normalization |
Normalization for string comparison should include conversion to a Unicode normalization form, to eliminate issues related to precomposed vs. decomposed characters and issues related to ordering of multiple combining characters. |
RI | S |