Is there any difference between "lower-latin" and "lower-alpha" values of "list-style-type" CSS property?

Question

Both list-style-type: lower-latin and list-style-type: lower-alpha results in list like this:

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

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

Answer 1

I've just checked it out on W3C, there doesn't seem to be any difference. Lower-latin couldbe a new attribute.

Im not sure, but they display the same. So i'd say they are the same.

Note: : IE8, and earlier versions won't display lower-latin

Update

I'vejust found this on QuirksMode, these guys are usually pretty good. But even their not sure.

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

If anyone has any ideas, let us know? Seems strange to have two attributes that appear to do the same.

One though I had is that, maybe they are for different charsets?

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