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Unable to make list counters stand upright in vertical text

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doc:clreq gap i:lists i:writing_mode l:zh p:basic s:hani
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Description

This issue is applicable to Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Mongolian.

A common way to orient counters for lists in vertical text is to have an upright number with a dot alongside it.

The expected way to achieve this in HTML would be to use the following CSS: li::marker { text-combine-upright: all; }, however this cannot be used because browsers don't support text-combine-upright.

For more details, see this GitHub issue, which is being used to track this gap.

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Research direction

No repository file, test, or entry point is identified. Start by reading the linked W3C JLReq issue 170 and determine what change in this requirements project would represent support for upright list counters; the current issue does not define a repository-local done condition.

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Assessment

Tech stack
css, html
Domain
internationalization
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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