Is there a difference between the lower-latin and lower-alpha values ​​for a list style CSS property?

Question

Both list-style-type: lower-latin and list-style-type: lower-alpha result in the following list:

 a. item1 b. item2 c. item3 ... 

Is there a difference between the two values, or are they exactly the same?

Answer 1

I just tested this on the W3C, it seems there is no difference. Lower-latin may become a new attribute.

I'm not sure, but they appear the same. Therefore, I would say that they are the same.

Note: IE8 and earlier will not display Lower-latin

Update

I found this on QuirksMode, these guys are usually very good. But even they are not sure.

http://www.quirksmode.org/css/lists.html

If anyone has any ideas, let us know? It seems strange to have two attributes that seem to do the exact same thing.

One, although I have, maybe they are designed for different encodings?

Update update

Source links

http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_list-style-type.asp

http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/tryit.asp?filename=trycss_list-style-type_ex

Answer 2

The W3C section about it here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/PR-CSS2-19980324/lists.html#list-props

Quoted partly from the referenced link (note or ):

Alphabetic systems are defined using:

  lower-latin or lower-alpha
     Lower case ascii letters (a, b, c, ... z). 
 upper-latin or upper-alpha
     Upper case ascii letters (A, B, C, ... Z). 

Answer 3

The expression "lower-alpha" probably indicates the enumeration points in the language in which the system is installed. This is not necessarily Latin. But to display listing items, regardless of the language setting in Latin, a “lower Latin language" is probably provided. I have no other explanation.