First Public Working Draft: Indic Layout Requirements

The Indic Layout Task Force, part of the W3C Internationalization Interest Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Indic Layout Requirements. This document describes the basic requirements for Indian Languages layout for display purpose. It discusses some of the major layout requirements in first letter pseudo-element, vertical arrangements of characters, letter spacing, text segmentation, line breaking and collation rules in Indic languages. The minimal requirements presented in this document for Indian languages text layout will also be used in E-publishing and CSS Standard. This documents covers major issues of e-content in Indian languages in order to create standardize format of text layout to address storage, rendering problems, vertical writing, letter spacing, collation, line breaking, etc. It also describes the definition of ABNF (Augmented Backus–Naur Form) based valid segmentation-Indic syllable in order to get the proper display in the browsers. Learn more about the Internationalization Activity.