Build 2000060520, Linux 2.2.14, RedHat 6.1, i686 The following code: <p lang="fr"><q>Qu'est-ce que c'est que <q>l'amour</q>?</q></p> does not render the Q tags as French, even though it correctly renders &laquo; and &raquo; (however, I have no Central European fonts installed). This is a specific case from the generic bug41368 (which should be confirmed).

I'm not sure about this. ->Parser

oh, i see how this is supposed to work now (read spec on <q> element at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/text.html#edef-Q) confirming, will attach testcase in a moment

Forwarding to the best style guy in San Diego. I think we're actually doing the right thing here. marc?

HTML spec says: "User agents should render quotation marks in a language-sensitive manner (see the lang attribute). Many languages adopt different quotation styles for outer and inner (nested) quotations, which should be respected by user-agents." Note the *should* and the lack of a *must* in the spec... So, we are not required to but *should* automatically handle quotes for supported languages. The easiest way to do this is probably via the style system. We already support the quotes property, so we could create rules in html.css like: q[lang|='fr']{ quotes: '<<' '>>' '<' '>'; } Q[lang|='ge']{ quotes: \2039 \203A \AB \BB; } or whatever the correct values are (I made those up). Currently, we require the document author to provide the quote rules. I'll attach a testcase showing how an author can specify the quote characters themselves right now. Accepting as an enhancement request. If somebody can provide a listing of the correct quote characters for supported languages then getting them in should be very easy - figuring out the correct quote characters is the hard part here.

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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16206 ***

Verified duplicate.