- From: Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 18:09:08 +0100
- To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>, W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>
On 27/5/14 17:27, Richard Ishida wrote: > 6.1 Hyphenation Control: the hyphens property > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-text-3/#hyphens-property > > > "When shaping scripts such as Arabic are allowed to break within words > due to hyphenation, the characters must still be shaped as if the word > were not broken." > > > I have seen a mail thread about hyphenation of Latin text within Arabic, > but I've heard from a few experts that hyphenation is not actually used > for Arabic-script text. Do we have some evidence that it is used? Just > curious. > I've seen an Arabic-script Uyghur book (published in China, IIRC) that used it. Nevertheless, in most languages written with Arabic script, the practice is unknown and would probably be considered quite bizarre. JK
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