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Bug 20266 - styling of vertical arrangement in Indian languages
Summary: styling of vertical arrangement in Indian languages
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: CSS
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writing Modes (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Naitik Tyagi
QA Contact: public-css-bugzilla
URL: http://w3cindia.in/ABNFValidSegmentat...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: needsAction
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-12-06 11:09 UTC by Naitik Tyagi
Modified: 2014-02-04 20:26 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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complete description of this issues (286.42 KB, application/pdf)
2012-12-06 11:09 UTC, Naitik Tyagi
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Description Naitik Tyagi 2012-12-06 11:09:08 UTC
Created attachment 1259 [details]
complete description of this issues

Presentation / Styling issues: Vertical arrangement of characters If some string is written in vertical mode, then writing each character on a new line may not be suitable, Styling like vertical arrangement of the character in Hindi. 
When this issue was first discussed, there were queries that whether Indic scripts (Devanagari etc.) are written in this fashion and will be of use anywhere.
Comment 1 Koji Ishii 2014-02-04 20:26:15 UTC
It's not clear to me, from the description, whether you want an option to render the expected result, or you want it by default.

If the former, you can use the property text-orientation: upright to get your expected result.
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-writing-modes/#text-orientation

If the latter, now it is Unicode who defines the default orientation for each character.
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr50/
Please make your feedback to Unicode.