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[articles/article-text-size] Reformulate or remove Comment for using encodings for soft line breaks for German compounds #241

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sisyphosloughs opened this issue Mar 21, 2020 · 2 comments

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[source] (https://www.w3.org/International/articles/article-text-size.de) [de]
The article is very good. From my point of view the comment from the translator needs discussion and should maybe removed. My experience with translators is, that most of them are not technically scilled enought to deal with encodings for soft linke breaks. This approach should be absolute exceptional. The way how it is written suggests using of encodings for soft line breaks in general.

@sisyphosloughs sisyphosloughs changed the title [articles/article-text-size] BRIEF_TITLE_GOES_HERE [articles/article-text-size] Reformulate or remove Comment for using encodings for soft line breaks Mar 21, 2020
@sisyphosloughs sisyphosloughs changed the title [articles/article-text-size] Reformulate or remove Comment for using encodings for soft line breaks [articles/article-text-size] Reformulate or remove Comment for using encodings for soft line breaks for German compounds Mar 21, 2020
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r12a commented Mar 23, 2020

Thanks for the report.

I think that use of ­ avoids complexities related to encoding, however, I would agree that soft-hyphens should only be used on an exceptional basis, and i'd also agree that some additional explanations would be useful here (such as what ­ represents, and that by using ­ you disable other possible breakpoints for the text).

cc @gunnarbittersmann

I'll leave this issue open, while we consider alternatives. We may need to augment the article itself, or point to a new article that discusses hyphenation.

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r12a commented Apr 8, 2021

In the absence of comment from the translator, i'll close this and comment out the translator's note.

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