Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-text] Should 'hyphens: auto' work if lang="" is not declared?

The Working Group just discussed `Should 'hyphens: auto' work if lang is not declared?`.

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&lt;dael> topic: Should 'hyphens: auto' work if lang is not declared?<br>
&lt;dael> github:  https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/869<br>
&lt;dael> myles: Hypenation requires a dictionary. The dictionary selected should be informed by lang. WIthout lang hard to pick dictionary. In webkit we pick the OS dictionary<br>
&lt;dael> myles: I believe that's right.<br>
&lt;dael> myles: We have seen a lot of untagged content.<br>
&lt;dael> dbaron: I think this was intentional decision by WG to encourage content to be written in a way that works worldwide.<br>
&lt;dael> dbaron: Gecko impl waht the spec says where we only auto-hypenate with a declared language.<br>
&lt;dael> astearns: Seemed like terrible things could happen if you use a dictionary without a lang.<br>
&lt;dael> fantasai: If they think their page works, but only on their computer that's bad.<br>
&lt;fantasai> s/If/Also, if/<br>
&lt;dael> florian: If hypens was meant to be applied but doesn't that's not good but it's readable. Auto hypens would make text confusing. It's enouraging authors to not lang tag and you might hypen wrong which is worse then no hypens.<br>
&lt;dael> myles: For the first part our thought is about exiting content. For new content we should encourage correct tags. We're worried about breaking large websites.<br>
&lt;dael> florian: You'd have degredation.<br>
&lt;dael> fantasai: The pages are broken in browsers that don't have the behavior so it's making it more obvious.<br>
&lt;dael> myles: Aren't you concerned you get german hypens on english text? Seems like a reason to change this preference.<br>
&lt;dael> ??: If you have a http header with a language?<br>
&lt;dael> fantasai: That counts as a language.<br>
&lt;myles> s/??/richr/<br>
&lt;astearns> s/myles: Aren't/astearns: Aren't<br>
&lt;dael> myles: I won't object.<br>
&lt;dbaron> https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#attr-lang<br>
&lt;dael> astearns: Anyone else?<br>
&lt;dael> astearns: Objections for requiring language for hypenation to take effect?<br>
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