2011-07-06 9:25, Asmus Freytag wrote:
Because accidental digraphs (in Danish) happen at word boundaries in a compound, the SHY is an elegant way to mark them.
It may often be a practical trick, given the current repertoire of characters in Unicode and the way they are handled in different programs. But I don’t see any elegance in it, and it may turn to an impractical method rather easily.
You don’t really want to say “this is an allowable word division point” but “these two (or more!) characters are not to be treated as one unit text, even in a context where they normally would be so treated.” You _might_ want to explicitly allow word division, but that’s coincidental.
Allowing word division just to say that some characters do not constitute a digraph (or trigraph…) is not practical e.g. when the text has otherwise no word divisions, for one reason or another, or when the particular word division point is typographically suboptimal or even bad.
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