- From: Jukka Korpela <jkorpela@cc.hut.fi>
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 16:54:41 +0300 (EET DST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, Terje Norderhaug wrote: > A better idea would be a shared dictionary of words and how they are > splitted residing on the network. Hyphenation is a strongly language-dependent issue, so what we basically need is support to different languages (including the HTTP level features and the proposed LANG attribute at the HTML level). For example, in English documents hyphenation is usually not desirable, whereas in Finnish documents it is often crucial for good-quality presentation since words are often very long; and in Finnish hyphenation can mostly be done on algorithmic basis (without dictionaries), and if high-quality hyphenation is desired, one really needs program which performs morphological analysis (in addition to using a dictionary). Most languages are probably somewhere between, but one should _not_ assume that dictionaries or explicit hyphenation by authors are are the universally correct approach. Yucca, http://www.hut.fi/~jkorpela/
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