- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 01:02:45 +0200
- To: Julien Quint <julien.quint@imag.fr>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
* Julien Quint wrote:
>The definition of a word is not script dependant, not even language
>dependant, but person dependant. [...]
Well,
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-css3-text-20010517/#word-spacing-prop says
"Word spacing algorithms are user agent-dependent. Determining word
boundary is typically done by detecting white space characters. There
are however many scripts and writing systems that do not separate
their words by any character (like Japanese, Chinese, Thai, etc...),
detecting word boundaries in these cases require dictionary based
algorithms that may not be supported by all user agents. Word spacing
is also influenced by justification (see the 'text-align' property)."
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