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The CSS Working Group has published an updated Candidate Recommendation of CSS Writing Modes Level 3. CSS Writing Modes Level 3 defines CSS handling of various international writing modes, such as left-to-right (e.g. Latin or Indic), right-to-left (e.g. Hebrew or Arabic), bidirectional (e.g. mixed Latin and Arabic) and vertical (e.g. Asian scripts).
This update fixes a bunch of problems found in the previous Candidate Recommendation, resulting in a small number of major substantive changes. Important ones include:
sideways-left and sideways-right from text-orientation, assigning the sideways-right definition to sideways.
sideways-lr and sideways-rl keywords to writing-modes.
use-glyph-orientation value in favor of aliasing the SVG glyph-orientation properties to text-orientation.
All substantive changes since the previous Candidate Recommendation are listed in the Changes section.
As always, please send feedback to the (archived) public mailing list www-style@w3.org with the spec code ([css-writing-modes]) and your comment topic in the subject line. (Alternatively, you can email one of the editors and ask them to forward your comment.)