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Hyphenation and word breaks without hyphens #79

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bert-github opened this issue Nov 15, 2017 · 0 comments
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Hyphenation and word breaks without hyphens #79

bert-github opened this issue Nov 15, 2017 · 0 comments
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i18n-needs-resolution Issue the Internationalization Group has raised and looks for a response on.

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https://w3c.github.io/low-vision-a11y-tf/requirements.html#hyphenation
talks about hyphenation. Not all script use hyphens. And maybe the issue is not whether there is a hyphen or not, but whether the two parts of a word are on separate lines. Or maybe those are two different issues?

The latest CSS draft, e.g., proposes two separate properties to control the breaking of words:
hyphens - for scripts that use hyphens, to allow breaking at language-defined places.
word-break - break without using hyphens, using language-dependent rules about separable letter-pairs.

(Hyphenation may not just cause parts of a word to be separated and a hyphen to be added, but it may even change the spelling of each of the parts. But maybe that is already implied by the text.)

@bert-github bert-github added the i18n-needs-resolution Issue the Internationalization Group has raised and looks for a response on. label Nov 15, 2017
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