On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:17 PM, Håkan Save Hansson <hakan.hansson@edison.se > wrote: > > There are some language specific special cases with hyphenation. In > Swedish for instance, if you write the two words “matta” (carpet) and > “tjuv” (thief) as one you write it as “mattjuv”, with two t letters. This > should hyphenate into “matt-tjuv”, with three t letters. This is not a > hyphenation rule, but rather a type rule: when you write two words as one, > there may never be more than two of the same letters where then two words > concatenate. > > > > If you want to use a manual soft hyphen (­) for such a word you're in > trouble. My suggestion is that when you write “matt­tjuv” in text and > it is displayed without hyphenation, it respects this rule and suppresses > one of the three letters t. > Unicode [1] says to do the opposite: When a SHY is used to represent a possible hyphenation location, the > spelling is that of the word without hyphenation So you're supposed to write it as mat­tjuv, and it's up to the hyphenation system to know how the spelling changes when the word is hyphenated. [1] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/#SoftHyphen JamesReceived on Wednesday, 26 February 2014 07:21:55 UTC
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