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Re: Word boundary


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Word boundary
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:12:30 +0200

> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:27:53 +0900
> 
> In article <address@hidden>, Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> >>> Normally word breaking does not require breaking between
> >>> different scripts. However, adding that capability may be
> >>> useful in combination with other extensions of word
> >>> segmentation. For example, ...
> > >
> > > So maybe we should have a user option to enable that, but I think it
> > > should be off by default.
> 
> > What would the practical effect of that be?  Would it break filling in 
> > Japanese?
> 
> I think no.  Filling is related to line-breaking, and it
> should be treated differently from word-breaking.

Right.  In addition, I think Japanese is already pretty well covered
by the advice in UAX#29 anyway, as it has specific rules for handling
Katakana and Hiragana.




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