proposal for new character 'soft/preferred line break'

[Markus Scherer]

On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Rhavin Grobert <rhavin at shadowtec.de> wrote:

> Parallel to soft hyphen, a hyphen that is just inserted if the word was
> broken, it would be practical to have some way to tell browser: if you need
> to break the line, try here first. This would be really usefull for poems,
> music lines, adresses,…
>

That would be HTML <wbr> <http://dev.w3.org/html5/markup/wbr.html> or U+200B
ZERO WIDTH SPACE <http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/character.jsp?a=200B>.

And it would be really easy to implement: there is no visual representation
> needed and if the right code-point is choosen, it would be
> downward-compatible to all systems not knowing of the new character.
>

Unlikely. There are some unassigned code points that are predefined with
Default_Ignorable_Code_Point<http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=%5B%3ADI%3A%5D%26%5B%3ACn%3A%5D&g=>,
but that is not supported everywhere.

Also, the implementation in browers would be very easy to acomplish.
>

Maybe. You could research how widely <wbr> and U+200B are supported. (I
don't have that data.)

Best regards,
markus
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