- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 22:12:46 +0100
- To: Jonathan Kew <jfkthame@gmail.com>, www International <www-international@w3.org>, W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>
Then perhaps we should replace the Arabic example with one in Uighur. Koji/Fantasai, I could ask the W3c Chinese staff whether they could come up with an example (with the appropriate location for a break), if you like. RI On 27/05/2014 18:09, Jonathan Kew wrote: > 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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