On 9/21/09, Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottingal@...400...> wrote:
For Malayalam, visible hyphens are not required. Not sure about other languages. Th inserted hyphen is "Soft Hyphen- \u00AD"
And in German, even word spelling may change at the hyphenated boundary. So it looks unlikely that a soft hyphen-based solution will solve all our hyphenation needs. What we really need is a dictionary of "word, pre-break, post-break" triads for each language. But still, soft hyphen is a legal Unicode character and we must support it anyway. I'm just wondering if it is supposed to be treated differently depending on language; from what I read, it looks like it is always replaced with a visible hyphen when a break occurs. So it may be a workable solution for English and other languages but not for Malayalam :( Please correct me if I'm wrong.