- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:33:24 +0000
- To: www-style@w3.org
- CC: www International <www-international@w3.org>, public-i18n-cjk@w3.org
Ambrose Li was concerned to find a way to prevent line breaking between characters in certain Japanese and Chinese words, such as names and other compound words. Boris Zbarsky suggested that the correct approach is to use markup around the words/names and apply white-space:no-wrap. I also think that this is probably the right approach. It is similar to the approach used in SSML with the token or w element. http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis11/#S3.1.8.2 Ambrose thought that no-wrap doesn't work in most browsers, so I put a quick test case together at http://www.w3.org/International/tests/test-incubator/nowrap-in-cjk/test1.html I found that: Firefox, Opera (Windows) and Camino work fine. Chrome and Safari both wrap the character on either side of the marked up word as a single unit. I think this is a bug. IE8 wraps the character following the marked up word (but not the one before like Chrome and Safari) as a single unit with the marked up word. I think this is also a bug. Opera on the Mac doesn't seem to support no-wrap at all, and just wraps one character at a time. -- Richard Ishida Internationalization Activity Lead W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) http://www.w3.org/International/ http://rishida.net/
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