Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-22 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 14:11 +0300 on 07/22/2012, sweepslate wrote about [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using tex: I want to text-transform:uppercase a piece of text writen in Greek. The Greek language requires that: a. in lower case text, some letters need to have accents --and b. in full

Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-22 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Le 22 juil. 2012 à 22:21, sweepslate a écrit : > I tried your example, and the upper case letters still have accents. Hmm. It works for me. Oh, but I have a nightly Firefox build, not the release build (which version is the latest ?). After a quick look though the MDC docs, it appears you'll ha

Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-22 Thread sweepslate
I tried your example, and the upper case letters still have accents. I tried adding lang="el" myself, on and on , but the accents are still there: http://geocities.ws/sweepslate/greek-accenting/lang_el1.html http://geocities.ws/sweepslate/greek-accenting/lang_el2.html

Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-22 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Le 22 juil. 2012 à 20:59, sweepslate a écrit : > Beeing able to have the user agent figure that out would be a great solution. > > I checked on Firefox 14, and it didn't work. Check yourself if you'd like: > > http://geocities.ws/sweepslate/greek-accenting/greek-accenting.html Yes, the propert

Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-22 Thread Philip TAYLOR
sweepslate wrote: Beeing able to have the user agent figure that out would be a great solution. I checked on Firefox 14, and it didn't work. Check yourself if you'd like: http://geocities.ws/sweepslate/greek-accenting/greek-accenting.html Oh dear. Also true in Seamonkey 2.11. Well, Mozil

Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-22 Thread sweepslate
Beeing able to have the user agent figure that out would be a great solution. I checked on Firefox 14, and it didn't work. Check yourself if you'd like: http://geocities.ws/sweepslate/greek-accenting/greek-accenting.html __ css

Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-22 Thread sweepslate
Off-hand, no, but could you clarify : are you speaking of polytonic ("classical") Greek or modern (monotonic) Greek ? Modern, monotonic Greek. Beeing able to do this in classical, polytonic Greek would be a great bonus though! __

Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-22 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Philip TAYLOR wrote: Off-hand, no, but could you clarify : are you speaking of polytonic ("classical") Greek or modern (monotonic) Greek ? Incidentally, Mozilla claim to do it properly : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/text-transform which reads (in part) : In Greek (gr), ac

Re: [css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-22 Thread Philip TAYLOR
sweepslate wrote: I want to text-transform:uppercase a piece of text writen in Greek. The Greek language requires that: a. in lower case text, some letters need to have accents --and b. in full upper case text, LIKE THIS, have no accents at all [...] I could write the text using uppe

[css-d] non-English characters: omit accents when using text-transform:uppercase

2012-07-22 Thread sweepslate
I want to text-transform:uppercase a piece of text writen in Greek. The Greek language requires that: a. in lower case text, some letters need to have accents --and b. in full upper case text, LIKE THIS, have no accents at all My problem is: if I use the uppercase property I will end up wit