@@ -437,11 +437,28 @@ Combining Values: Interpolation, Addition, and Accumulation</h2>
437437<h2 id="textual-values">
438438Textual Data Types</h2>
439439
440- <dfn export lt="CSS identifier | CSS ident | identifier | ident">Identifiers</dfn> ,
440+ Textual data types are used to represent identifiers or text.
441+ Aside from the casing of <a href="#keywords">pre-defined keywords</a>
442+ or as explicitly defined for a given property,
443+ no normalization is performed,
444+ not even Unicode normalization:
445+ the <a lt="specified value">specified</a> and <a>computed value</a> of a property
446+ are exactly the provided Unicode values after parsing
447+ (which includes character set conversion and [[css-syntax-3#escaping|escaping]] ).
448+ [[!UNICODE]] [[!CSS3SYN]]
449+
450+ <dfn export lt="CSS identifier | CSS ident | identifier | ident">CSS identifiers</dfn> ,
441451 generically denoted by <dfn><ident></dfn> ,
442452 consist of a sequence of characters conforming to the <<ident-token>> grammar. [[!CSS3SYN]]
443453 Identifiers cannot be quoted;
444454 otherwise they would be interpreted as strings.
455+ CSS properties accept two classes of <a>identifiers</a> :
456+ [[#keywords|pre-defined keywords]]
457+ and [[#custom-idents|author-defined identifiers]] .
458+
459+ Note: The <<ident>> production is not meant for property value definitions--
460+ <<custom-ident>> should be used instead.
461+ It is provided as a convenience for defining other syntactic constructs.
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@@ -457,7 +474,7 @@ Textual Data Types</h2>
457474Pre-defined Keywords</h3>
458475
459476 In the value definition fields,
460- keywords with a pre-defined meaning appear literally.
477+ <dfn lt="keyword" export> keywords</dfn> with a pre-defined meaning appear literally.
461478 Keywords are <a>CSS identifiers</a>
462479 and are interpreted <a lt="ASCII case-insensitive">ASCII case-insensitively</a>
463480 (i.e., [a-z] and \[A-Z] are equivalent).
@@ -748,6 +765,15 @@ URL Modifiers</h4>
748765<h2 id="numeric-types">
749766Numeric Data Types</h2>
750767
768+ Numeric data types are used to represent
769+ quantities, indexes, positions, and other such values.
770+ Although many syntactic variations can exist
771+ in expressing the quantity (numeric aspect) in a given numeric value,
772+ the <a lt="specified value">specified</a> and <a>computed value</a>
773+ do not distinguish these variations:
774+ they represent the value’s abstract quantity,
775+ not its syntactic representation.
776+
751777 Properties may restrict numeric values to some range.
752778 If the value is outside the allowed range,
753779 the declaration is invalid and must be <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/conform.html#ignore">ignored</a> .
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