Re: soft hyphen and hyphenation

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 06:22:34PM +0100, Sebastian Geerken wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, corvid wrote:
> > I just wanted to mention that if you compile with -pedantic,
> 
> I get 633 warnings when I compile with -pedantic. :-) 
> 
> > it complains like
> > 
> > textblock.cc:941:22: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion [-Woverflow]
> > 
> > about
> > 
> >    text[p++] = 0xe2;
> >    text[p++] = 0x80;
> >    text[p++] = 0x90;
> 
> I don't know how to deal best with this, but following change seems to
> work:
> 
>          text[p++] = '\xe2';
>          text[p++] = '\x80';
>          text[p++] = '\x90';

I know, I brought this up in the first place, but now I noticed,
that the unconditional hyphen (0xe2 0x80 0x90) seems not be
available in all fonts (e.g. I only see squares for it on
heise.de). So maybe a hyphen-minus aka '-' might be simpler and
commonly available (also see [1]). What do you think?

Cheers and sorry for the confusion,
Johannes

[1] http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/dashes.html