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As I said before in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/2004Feb/0087.html , I believe this statement in the HTML5 spec: # Rules setting the 'quotes' property appropriately for the locales and # languages understood by the user are expected to be present. ( http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/rendering.html#phrasing-content-1 ) is not reasonable. It imposes nearly indefinite research requirements onto any implementers intending to produce an implementation supporting the suggested default rendering. If the HTML specification wants to require that user-agents observe quotation styles for various languages, it should specify what those styles are or cite a (potentially evolving) document that does. (Really, though, I think the <q> element should be deprecated in favor of a new element in which the author writes the quotation marks explicitly, and the <q> element's legacy rendering behavior made something simple and easily interoperable.)
Unless a CSS sheet is given in bug 13398, I will add the following rule to the style sheet: :root { quotes: '"' '"'; }
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Checked in as WHATWG revision r6655. Check-in comment: Remove the incredibly vague and complicated requirement that UAs provide localised quote rules. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6654&to=6655