q element produces incorrect quotation marks when language changes

[r12a]

This issue is common across all languages that use the q element.

When a Chinese page contains a quotation in another language, the quotation marks used around that quotation (and inside it for embedded quotes) should be the Chinese ones – not those of the language of the quotation.

Currently, if the language of the quotation is declared on the q tag in HTML using the lang attribute, browsers instead set the quotation marks based on the language of the quote.

For example, if English text is quoted in a Chinese sentence surrounded by just , the quotation marks will be correct:

第一 「second 『third』」

However, if lang="en" is added to the q tag, the result becomes:

第一 “second ‘third’”

Here is a test. There are also tests and results in the i18n test suite.

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

[r12a]

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[xfq]

Given that the HTML issue was closed, should we update the description of this issue?