Re: soft hyphen and hyphenation

"Sebastian Geerken" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.dillo.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Nov 26, Johannes Hofmann wrote:
> is it correct that we use a soft hyphen (0xc2 0xad) to draw the
> hyphen when breaking words? It seems to draw ok with fltk/X11, but
> wouldn't an unconditional hyphen 0xE2 0x80 0x90 be more correct?
> I'm asking because e.g the Apple drawing library doesn't seem to
> draw the soft hyphen if it thinks there should be no line break.

I see no problem with using unconditional breaks, and it seems to work
well with fltk/X11, so I've pushed the changes to hg.dillo.org.

(BTW: unconditional hyphens should also added do dillo_hyphen.)

Sebastian
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