Behnam Esfahbod

Yeah. These code-points, specially U+FDF2, do appear in text because of a valid reason: wanting fallback to next font with the "ligature" (sign, I would call them myself), instead of...

More codepoints that need coverage: ``` U+FD3E ORNATE LEFT PARENTHESIS U+FD3F ORNATE RIGHT PARENTHESIS U+FDFC RIAL SIGN U+FDFD ARABIC LIGATURE BISMILLAH AR-RAHMAN AR-RAHEEM ```

Here's an example of a modern (computer-type-set) 6-grad math textbook, on position and styling of underline. 

This is an example of overline from a "The Holy Bible in Persian" with PDF available on openlibrary.org.  Basically, the line is drawn above the height-of-ALEF, almost touching the...

We discussed underline/overline methods on the 7 February 2017 weekly meeting. Here's a summary: 1) Existing practices (meaning almost any handwriting, lithography, movable type, and traditional word processors) puts underline/overline...

Another area to cover is solid line (strike) through positioning. Test page: https://www.w3.org/International/tests/repo/css-text-decor-3/line-decoration/text-decoration-003.html

Related issue: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1288

From https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1288 > Some notes from our discussion on the ALReq weekly meeting, specifically regarding this issue for Arabic script: > > First, regarding underline position in Arabic script: >...

Review of https://w3c.github.io/alreq/#h_numbers ## Feedback * Let's not call the variants Arabic vs. Persian. (Shervin) * We may want to stay away from francophone and anglophone terms. (Shervin) * Instead...

Regarding styling of phrases and terms, right now, we have `` and `` tags, as well as `qterm` and `uname` classes, but, as far as I understand, their usage is...