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What rendering failures for RTL, ruby, vertical and text-combine timed text are documented in public renderer issue trackers and test suites?

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The imscJS tracker records concrete RTL/CJK failures: per-character spans broke Arabic joining in WebKit (109, closed), sheared vertical Japanese text was cropped by its region (260, closed), rubyReserve broke on Chrome after a switch to CSS ruby-text-container (289, closed 2026-10-10), and ruby style-resolution pruning (162) and xml:space/rubyAlign (185) remain open. One renderer's tracker; a sample, not prevalence. Curator qualifications: Specs, guide and issues read 2026-10-22; nothing rendered. Issues 194 and 30 and WPT bidi reftests not re-read; browser pass/fail results not read. Limitations: Specs, guide and issues read 2026-10-22; nothing rendered. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/sandflow/imscJS/issues/30",
      "note": "GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/109; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/260; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/289; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/162; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/185"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/blob/b4b303c8dca22989c43e2d76fce199c36d4b77a7/webvtt/rendering/cues-with-video/processing-model/bidi/bidi_ruby.html",
      "note": "GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/109; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/260; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/289; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/162; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/185"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/sandflow/imscJS/issues/109",
      "note": "GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/109; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/260; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/289; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/162; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/185"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/sandflow/imscJS/issues/194",
      "note": "GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/109; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/260; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/289; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/162; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/185"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/sandflow/imscJS/issues/260",
      "note": "GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/109; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/260; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/289; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/162; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/185"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/sandflow/imscJS/issues/289",
      "note": "GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/109; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/260; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/289; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/162; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/185"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/sandflow/imscJS/issues/162",
      "note": "GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/109; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/260; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/289; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/162; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/185"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/sandflow/imscJS/issues/185",
      "note": "GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/109; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/260; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/289; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/162; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/185"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] The imscJS tracker records concrete RTL/CJK failures: per-character spans broke Arabic joining in WebKit (109, closed), sheared vertical Japanese text was cropped by its region (260, closed), rubyReserve broke on Chrome after a switch to CSS ruby-text-container (289, closed 2026-10-10), and ruby style-resolution pruning (162) and xml:space/rubyAlign (185) remain open. One renderer's tracker; a sample, not prevalence. · locator: GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/109; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/260; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/289; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/162; GitHub REST GET sandflow/imscJS issues/185 source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

Linked records

cites → https://github.com/sandflow/imscJS/issues/109
cites → https://github.com/sandflow/imscJS/issues/162
cites → https://github.com/sandflow/imscJS/issues/185
cites → https://github.com/sandflow/imscJS/issues/194
cites → https://github.com/sandflow/imscJS/issues/260
cites → https://github.com/sandflow/imscJS/issues/289
cites → https://github.com/sandflow/imscJS/issues/30
cites → https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/blob/b4b303c8dca22989c43e2d76fce199c36d4b77a7/webvtt/rendering/cues-with-video/processing-model/bidi/bidi_ruby.html

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