- From: Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:51:42 -0700
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- CC: www-international@w3.org
On 10/6/2011 3:46 PM, fantasai wrote: > On 10/05/2011 08:32 PM, Asmus Freytag wrote: >> On 10/4/2011 5:46 PM, fantasai wrote: >>> Are there any resources that CSS can point to for indicating the >>> appropriate hyphenation character for a particular language? >> >> Do you mean the appropriate diwsplay when hyphenation is applied? >> >> Because it's not always the addition of a character. > > Right. But we presume the hyphenation engine takes care of any > spelling changes. Separating the specification of hyphenation this way between engine and rendering seems a bit strange. The "hyphenation character" is just as much part of the orthography as any spelling changes around the break. It would seem then, that a natural design would place the responsibiility for language appropriate character selection on the same module that is implementing language appropriate word-division in the first place. A./ > >> See the description of the issue in http://unicode.org/reports/tr14 > > I'm looking for a comprehensive reference for this part: > "The inserted hyphen glyph can take a wide variety of shapes, as > appropriate > for the situation. Examples include shapes like U+2010 HYPHEN, > U+058A ARMENIAN > HYPHEN, U+180A MONGOLIAN NIRUGU, or U+1806 MONGOLIAN TODO SOFT > HYPHEN." > > There are some examples there, but it's not an exhaustive list and it > does not > give the mapping to language codes. > > ~fantasai > >
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