Re: Proposing mostly invisible characters

From: Richard Wordingham via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 18:50:59 +0100

On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 08:56:02 +0300
Henri Sivonen via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 15:53 Christoph Päper via Unicode
> <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
>
> > ISHY/SIHY is especially useful for encoding (German) noun compounds
> > in wrapped titles, e.g. on product labeling, where hyphens are often
> > suppressed for stylistic reasons, e.g. orthographically correct
> > _Spargelsuppe_, _Spargel-Suppe_ (U+002D) or _Spargel‐Suppe_
> > (U+2010) may be rendered as _Spargel␤Suppe_ and could then be
> > encoded as _Spargel<ISHY>Suppe_.
> >
>
> Why should this stylistic decision be encoded in the text content as
> opposed to being a policy applies on the CSS (or conceptually
> equivalent) layer?

How would you define such a property?

Richard.
Received on Fri Sep 13 2019 - 12:51:31 CDT

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