On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:46:57 +0000 Koji Ishii <[email protected]> wrote:
> Korean has U+00AD encoded in their legacy encoding, so they may have > typographic rules for it, but I’m not very familiar with Korean. As > far as I searched for KLREQ[1], I could not get a hit. > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/klreq/ Thanks for the link. Reading it leaves me uncertain as to whether one should expect to encounter U+00AD within a Korean word, but the part of the issue may be how it is to be rendered. I found some very relevant reading at the Cascading Style Sheets literature. http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#hyphenate appears to reveal the existence of soft hyphens in Arabic text. Santhosh Thottingal has been doing some well-received work on hyphenation in Indian scripts (see e.g. http://thottingal.in/blog/2013/03/17/hyphenation-in-web ), and the only criticism I could see was in the rendering of the active soft hyphens. There is a suggested solution at http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-text-4/#hyphenate-character , though I'm not sure that there will always be a character with the right glyph. On the basis of this information, I'm happy to contend that U+00AD can be found in words in many non-'Western' scripts. I can't even be beaten by a claim that ZWSP is the character for an invisible soft hyphen. Richard. _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
