Re: [css3-text] line break opportunities are based on *syllable* boundaries?

CE Whitehead scripsit:

> I believe it is correct to say "word" here (not "syllable"), but don't
> know what to do about languages that do not use word deliminters,
> and can provide no references for Korean, Japanese, or Chinese (though
> yes a lexical resource seems best).

Korean uses spaces, so it's not an issue.

Chinese and Japanese don't have a problem breaking words up (as I have
posted, the notion of "word" in Chinese is a technical linguistic one
rather than something autonomous) and work at the character (grapheme
cluster) level.  So line breaks are not a problem there either.

The Unicode Standard has extensive discussions of all this.

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Received on Saturday, 29 January 2011 19:59:32 UTC