Re: I18N-ISSUE-220: Line / paragraph separators in pre, textarea, etc from Martin J. Dürst on 2013-01-19 (public-i18n-core@w3.org from January to March 2013)

From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:00:30 +0900
To: Internationalization Working Group <public-i18n-core@w3.org>
CC: Internationalization Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org>
Message-ID: <50FA60AE.3080605@it.aoyama.ac.jp>

On 2013/01/19 1:39, Internationalization Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
> I18N-ISSUE-220: Line / paragraph separators in pre, textarea, etc
>
> http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/220
>
> Raised by: Richard Ishida
> On product:
>
> 3.2 Line and Paragraph Separator, U+2028..U+2029
> http://www.w3.org/TR/unicode-xml/#Line
>
> "What to do if detected: In a browser context, treat as white space, or ignore."
>
> I think this needs to make an exception for pre elements and elements such as textarea. In those contexts, the expected behaviour of the characters should be respected.

I'm not against mentioning pre and friends, but I'd like to point out 
that inside pre, whites pace is treated literally. So "treat as white 
space" isn't wrong.

Regards,   Martin.

Received on Saturday, 19 January 2013 09:01:07 UTC