On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:22 AM, Markus Scherer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Rhavin Grobert <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Parallel to soft hyphen, a hyphen that is just inserted if the word was >> broken, it would be practical to have some way to tell browser: if you need >> to break the line, try here first. This would be really usefull for poems, >> music lines, adresses,... >> > > That would be HTML <wbr> <http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/wbr.html> or U+200B > ZERO WIDTH SPACE <http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=200B>. > > And it would be really easy to implement: there is no visual >> representation needed and if the right code-point is choosen, it would be >> downward-compatible to all systems not knowing of the new character. >> > > Unlikely. There are some unassigned code points that are predefined with > Default_Ignorable_Code_Point<http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=%5B%3ADI%3A%5D%26%5B%3ACn%3A%5D&g=>, > but that is not supported everywhere. > > Also, the implementation in browers would be very easy to acomplish. >> > > Maybe. You could research how widely <wbr> and U+200B are supported. (I > don't have that data.) > > Here's the wbr support story: http://www.quirksmode.org/oddsandends/wbr.html
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