- From: Jukka Korpela <jkorpela@cc.hut.fi>
- Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 20:07:31 +0300 (EET DST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Sat, 10 May 1997, Martin J. Duerst wrote: > Soft-hyphen covers the vast bulk of cases in all languages that use > hyphenation. On the contrary, if soft hyphen is used according to ISO 8859-1 (and how else could it be used in HTML), it covers _no_ hyphenation cases - except those where a word break _has been established_ by the human being or other agent that produced the HTML _source_. Contrary to what seems to be common belief even among HTML experts, soft hyphen (as defined by ISO 8859-1) is _not_ a hyphenation hint comparable to invisible hyphen in text processing programs. See http://www.hut.fi/%7ejkorpela/shy.html for more detailed discussion. Yucca, http://www.hut.fi/%7ejkorpela/
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