Re: Proposing mostly invisible characters

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

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 15:53 Christoph Päper via Unicode
<unicode@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.

We should start with whether such a stylistic choice is general enough so that support in one or the other standard is indicated.

Color me "not convinced" on that point.

If product names (or descriptions) are wrapped in non-standard ways on products and in advertising that may well be common in those instances, but they are like signage and not running text. The designer will either use two text boxes or use a fixed sized one an insert a space to get the (typo-)graphical appearance desired.

Short of seeing this in a block of text on a website where that block is resized with screen size or resolution, I think we are arguing far ahead of an actual use case.

A./