- From: Devin Bayer <devin.bayer@rochester.edu>
- Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 08:48:50 -0700
- To: Simon Siemens <Simon.Siemens@web.de>
- Cc: XHTML-Liste <www-html@w3.org>
On Aug 5, 2005, at 1:15, Simon Siemens wrote: > However what has not been addressed by HTML up to > now are compound words. I suppose, this is because English does not > have > them to a relevant extend. But German e.g. has many compound words > (like > "Bundesregierung": "Bund" + "Regierung"). Thus an ability to indicate > such compositions could really enhance search engine results from a > German point of view. Why not use the the word joiner (2060) character? Excerpted from Unicode: Word Joiner behaves like in that it indicates the absence of word boundaries; however, the word joiner has no width. For example, the word joiner can be inserted after the fourth character in the text “base+delta” to indicate that there should be no line break between the “e” and the “+”. The word joiner should be ignored in contexts other than word or line breaking. - Devin Bayer
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