Re: Proposing mostly invisible characters

2019-09-13 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
On 9/13/2019 10:50 AM, Richard Wordingham via Unicode wrote: On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 08:56:02 +0300 Henri Sivonen via Unicode wrote: On Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 15:53 Christoph Päper via Unicode wrote: ISHY/SIHY is especially useful

Re: Proposing mostly invisible characters

2019-09-13 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 08:56:02 +0300 Henri Sivonen via Unicode wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 15:53 Christoph Päper via Unicode > wrote: > > > ISHY/SIHY is especially useful for encoding (German) noun compounds > > in wrapped titles, e.g. on product labeling, where hyphens are often > >

Re: Proposing mostly invisible characters

2019-09-13 Thread Asmus Freytag via Unicode
On 9/12/2019 5:53 AM, Christoph Päper via Unicode wrote: ISHY/SIHY is especially useful for encoding (German) noun compounds in wrapped titles, e.g. on product labeling, where hyphens are often suppressed for stylistic reasons, e.g. orthographically correct

Re: Proposing mostly invisible characters

2019-09-13 Thread Christoph Päper via Unicode
CSS Text would indeed allow this in level 4:   .label {hyphenate-character: "";} However, this suggests that *all* SHYs therein should not produce a hyphen glyph at the end of a line. I guess I would need to show then, that there are

Re: Proposing mostly invisible characters

2019-09-12 Thread Henri Sivonen via Unicode
On Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 15:53 Christoph Päper via Unicode wrote: > ISHY/SIHY is especially useful for encoding (German) noun compounds in > wrapped titles, e.g. on product labeling, where hyphens are often > suppressed for stylistic reasons, e.g. orthographically correct > _Spargelsuppe_,

Re: Proposing mostly invisible characters

2019-09-12 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 14:53:45 +0200 (CEST) Christoph Päper via Unicode wrote: > Dear Unicoders > > There are some characters that have no precedent in existing > encodings and are also hard to attest directly from printed sources. > Can one still make a solid case for encoding those in Unicode?

Proposing mostly invisible characters

2019-09-12 Thread Christoph Päper via Unicode
Dear Unicoders There are some characters that have no precedent in existing encodings and are also hard to attest directly from printed sources. Can one still make a solid case for encoding those in Unicode? I am thinking of characters that are either invisible (most of the time) or can