- From: Khaled Hosny via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:55:32 +0000
- To: public-i18n-archive@w3.org
My understanding is that the only modern Arabic orthography allowing hyphenation is Uyghur Ereb Yëziqi (the modern Arabic based orthography, the old, also Arabic based, orthography did not allow hyphenation), whose behavior is what Unicode and CSS are describing. I’ve been told that at some point (in the 80s?) Persian publications did use hyphenation and, IIRC, it was only allowed at ZWNJ. Arabic language AFAIK never had hyphenation, even in the early stages of the orthography when breaking inside words was allowed it didn’t use a hyphen when breaking words and the breaking would only happen between unjoined letters (i.e. only after right joining letters) and never between joined ones.  In the second sura (middle left of page), lines 4/5 السمو / ت, lines 7/8 ا / لحسنى, etc.  lines 1/2 و / احدة, lines 2/3 ر / تلنه, etc. -- GitHub Notification of comment by khaledhosny Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/alreq/issues/108#issuecomment-293542729 using your GitHub account
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