- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:34:51 +0300
The part of the spec about numbers at http://whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#numbers talks about skipping characters in the class Zs. Also, it talks about characters like U+066A ARABIC PERCENT SIGN, U+FE6A SMALL PERCENT SIGN and U+FF05 FULLWIDTH PERCENT SIGN. On the other hand, when the spec talks about digits, it talks about "U +0030 DIGIT ZERO to U+0039 DIGIT NINE" and not about character class Nd. Referring to character classes instead of particular characters is problematic, because what constitutes a conforming number changes when Unicode introduces ANCIENT BRUTOPIAN QUARTER CUBIT SPACE or SYLDAVIAN VULGAR DIGIT FIVE. I think i18n political correctness has no place in attributes. I think they should be ASCII only with the XML notion of whitespace. However, the human-readable fallback content of the progress and meter elements is not so clear-cut. Still, I doubt whether it is worthwhile to have an unstable but universal number format for content that is displayed to end users only as fallback. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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