CSS text-transform updated for the Dutch language!

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CSS text-transform updated for the Dutch language!

The CSS text-transform property is a tricky one. At first sight, it looks easy: uppercase, lowercase and capitalize. But capitalization varies from one language to another, and text-transform, per CSS3 Text, must take this into account.

The Dutch language has a digraph: ij. This is not really a separate letter (and almost never in computerized text). But both components of the digraph are always capitalized together:

ijslandIJsland

This is specific to the Dutch language, which is defined in the HTML document by using the HTML lang or XHTML xml:lang attributes with the nl language code. It landed today in Firefox Nightly, and will be in Firefox 14.

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