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Emphasis marks for Western text

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Description

When compositing of Chinese and Western mixed texts, if the author needs to emphasize a piece of text that contains both Chinese and Western text, do they also need to add the emphasis mark for the Western text? Or should they use italics, underlines, capitalization, etc.?

(#96 is kind of related, but different. It is about emphasis marks skipping punctuation marks.)

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the question in issue #552 alongside the related issue #96 and the existing Chinese Text Layout requirements. Determine whether mixed Chinese and Western text needs emphasis marks on Western text or an alternative convention; done means recording an agreed recommendation in the requirements.

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Assessment

Domain
documentation, internationalization
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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