- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:14:48 +0000 (UTC)
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, ?istein E. Andersen wrote: > > Hyphenation does not seem to have been discussed on this list so far, > and I think it should be. > > Old proposal: > [2] http://www.nada.kth.se/i18n/html/hyph.html While I appreciate the problems faced by Swedish, German, and othes, I don't think this is a big enough problem to deserve solutions more complicated than the soft hyphen at this time. Given that Unicode provides soft hyphen semantics and CSS provides the rendering rules, I don't think there is anything much for HTML5 to say on the matter at this time. This thread included many further e-mails discussing the subject. I agree with most of the points made. There did not seem to be a consensus that this is something that HTML5 should do anything about. If hyphenation dictionaries are to be used, it seems CSS would be the best place for them. I haven't done anything in HTML5 to handle them. As usual, please let me know if there is something I missed. Cheers, -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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