On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 09:53:37 +0200 "Jukka K. Korpela" <[email protected]> wrote:
> The <wbr> tag (an old nonstandard tag, now being standardized in > HTML5) would not have been needed if browsers had supported U+200B. > It is nowadays debatable which one should be used (U+200B has the > disadvantage of not being supported by IE 6, a still somewhat > significant point). U+200B has the distinct advantage of being a character, and therefore readily travelling with the words it separates. It's quite a useful character when dealing with inadequate or non-existent dictionaries for languages that don't have visible separators between words or, depending on line-breaking practice, syllables. Richard. _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
