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WEB I18N GAP FIXED: Interoperable emphasis marks

Emphasis marks

Chinese and Japanese have a native way of indicating emphasis for short ranges of inline text which involves placing a small mark above or below the characters being emphasised in horizontal text, and to the right/left in vertical text.

This is now supported, using CSS, in all 3 major browser engines.

See the Gap report.

See also CSS Text Decoration for how to use this feature.

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WEB I18N GAP FIXED: Interoperable custom counter styles

All 3 major browser engines now support the ability to create custom counter styles.

This is a significant step forward in enabling fully interoperable list numbering and other counters that reflect local approaches, especially for languages with smaller speaker populations.

See the Gap report.

See also Ready-made Counter Styles to use or adapt almost 200 suggested patterns from around the world.

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WEB I18N GAP FIXED: Upright alphanumerics in vertically-set text

By default, in runs of Latin alphanumeric text the letters are rotated 90º and run down the page. However, in some instances the alphanumerics need to stand upright. For example, this is important for acronyms.

This is now supported, using CSS, in all 3 major browser engines.

See the Gap report.

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WEB I18N GAP PROGRESS: N’Ko Unjoined font

Noto N’Ko Unjoined fonts in regular and bold are now available, making it possible to create unjoined headings in text.

Get the font

Gap report

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WEB I18N GAP FIXED: N’Ko tone marks

N’Ko tone marks are now all at the same height in the Noto fonts as well as Ebrima and Kigelia.

Update your font

Gap report

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