Proposing mostly invisible characters

Richard Wordingham via Unicode unicode at unicode.org
Fri Sep 13 12:50:59 CDT 2019


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.




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