- From: Jukka Korpela <jkorpela@cc.hut.fi>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 19:28:48 +0300 (EET DST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Fred L. Drake wrote: > The base dictionaries should be determined by the UA, but an author > should be able to provide supplemental dictionaries for unusual > words. I suppose that the issue can be summarized as follows: 1. The standardized specification of language and adequate support for is the crucial thing (especially since it addresses many other questions than hyphenation as well). Much more crucial than any of the following. 2. Author's supplemental dictionaries would be a good thing to have support for. They might be marginally useful. 3. Still, if aiming at perfectness, there should be a way to specify the hyphenation of an _occurrence_ of a word - using some element and associated attribute related to the occurrence, not to the word in general. The reason is that a language may have words which have the same spelling but should still be hyphenated differently. Admittedly, this means that the orthography is not perfect. But this is a fact of life. (Pobody is nerfect.) Yucca, http://www.hut.fi/~jkorpela/
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