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[css-text-4] text-spacing needs to handle non-fullwidth punctuation also

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Description

“京都(日本)” This doesn't collapse between the closing parens and the closing quote, but it really ought to. (Note that curly quotes are used in Chinese, and are rendered fullwidth even though they use the same codepoint.)

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Research direction

Start with the CSS Text Level 4 text-spacing issue and its “京都(日本)” example. Determine how the specification currently handles closing parentheses and quotes, then define the expected collapsing behavior for non-fullwidth punctuation and document the resolved rule in the relevant spec text.

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Assessment

Tech stack
css
Domain
frontend, internationalization
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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