Shanjian Li Reporter
	Description • 23 years ago

This is a problem split from 54467. 
As CSS specs 5.12.2 metioned :
   "Some languages may have specific rules about how to treat certain letter 
combinations. In Dutch, for example, if the letter combination "ij" apprears at 
the beginning of a word, both letters should be considered within the 
:first-letter pseudo-element."
   Should we include those situations? I doubt if anyone will list a lot of such 
examples. Even to include above mentioned example is rather difficult, because 
we have to know what language it is. (Encoding normally is easier to get. )

	Shanjian Li Reporter
	Comment 1 • 23 years ago

It is not clear either we want to implement this or not. But anyway, I don't see 
any solution in near future. 

	Pierre Saslawsky
	Comment 2 • 23 years ago

This bug belongs to Internationalization, like bug 54467.

i18n folks need to identify the combinations of letters that should be considered 
as a single letter, and the language in which they occur, then extend the patch 
crafted by Shanjian in bug 54467 keeping in mind that the :first-letter pseudo 
can in fact cover up to 3 characters (1 punctuation sign + 2 letters).

	anthonyd
	Comment 3 • 23 years ago

reassining to the correct core and core owner.

	Roy Yokoyama
	Comment 4 • 23 years ago

-> shianjian

	Shanjian Li Reporter
	Comment 5 • 23 years ago

accepting

	Anne (:annevk)
	Comment 6 • 20 years ago

Apparently, \u0132 en \u0133 are the Unicode characters for the Dutch "ij".
Could this be resolved as WONTFIX now there are characters for this? (I will
bring this up at www-style.)

	Albert de Klein
	Comment 7 • 20 years ago

In most cases ij or IJ isn't seen as one character in Dutch and in most
publications it isn't treated as such. I doubt whether the single character
unicode values for ij/IJ are ever used in Dutch publications at all.

Some Dutch references on the usage of ij can be found on:

http://taalunieversum.org/taal/advies/vraag/1194/
http://taalunieversum.org/taal/advies/vraag/1188/

	Ilja Kamps
	Comment 8 • 20 years ago

Seeing popular use and the very limited support of the unicode signs it doesn't
make sense to not support it. Although it has been tried to get computers to see
it as one character before (Dutch DOS character set and keyboards had it as a
single sign), no one actually uses it. It is not even auto converted for in most
popular wordprocessors.

	Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]
	Comment 9 • 9 years ago

Corrected the summary.
Also, that's already documented https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::first-letter.

Sebastian

	Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]
	Comment 10 • 9 years ago

Sebastian: doesn't this mean that this is a duplicate of another bug? (meaning it should be RESOLVED DUPLICATE or RESOLVED WORKFORME)

	Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]
	Comment 11 • 9 years ago

I couldn't find any other bug related to this. And it is also not implemented yet.
What is done is the documentation of the feature according to the specification (though no browser seems to support this yet). FWIW I added a test case in the URL field.

Maybe I was too hasty, as the browser compatibility table still needs to be updated once this bug is fixed. Should the keyword be changed back to dev-doc-needed?

Sebastian

	Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]
	Comment 12 • 9 years ago

Yep, that we update Fx XY for devs and the compat table when this lands :-)

	Pulsebot
	Comment 20 • 3 years ago

Pushed by jkew@mozilla.com:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/02b46d68f0ec
Make the ::first-letter pseudo respect the Dutch 'ij' digraph and treat it as a unit. r=dholbert
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/acf19242273c
Add wpt reftest for ::first-letter and Dutch ij digraph. r=dholbert

	Web Platform Test Sync Bot (Matrix: #interop:mozilla.org)
	Comment 21 • 3 years ago

Created web-platform-tests PR https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/pull/27365 for changes under testing/web-platform/tests

	Web Platform Test Sync Bot (Matrix: #interop:mozilla.org)
	Comment 23 • 3 years ago

Upstream PR merged by moz-wptsync-bot