22882 - Q element support is crude

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 16206

(Core :: Layout, defect, P3)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

At the moment, the layout engine just interprets <q> and </q> elements as
vertical double quotes ("). It fails to take into account the following:
(1) curly quotes
(2) nested quotes
(3) quotes in different languages.

The URL given presents tests of all three aspects, including simulations of
what should appear in each case.

(1) is the most important to fix, as without it there is no incentive for
authors to use the Q element rather than hard-coded quote marks. (2) is a little
trickier, but also (I would think) easily fixable in time for 5.0.

(3), however, would require some architecture -- an updateable file, listing
languages by IANA code, along with the quote-mark system used by each language.

Comment 1

[Nicholas Cull]

By my reading of this bug, points 1 and 3 are covered by bug 16206, while point
2 is covered in bug 1061.

I'm marking this bug a duplicate of 16206. Please re-open this one if I've missed
something.

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

Comment 2

[Chris Petersen]

Agreed. Marking as verified duplicate of 16206.

Comment 3

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

SPAM. HTML Element component is deprecated, changing to Layout component. See
bug 88132 for details.

Comment 4

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

Come on Bugzilla, you can do it...