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Re: soft hyphens hard coded

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jan 12, 2021 1:43AM

On 12/01/2021 08:09, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> Hyphe‧nation
> The library for auto-hyphenation in the browser has no exception for the
> Hyphe-Nation. So, the author must manually code the hyphenation point in
> HTML:
> Hyphe&shy;nation
> The word is correctly wrapped visually and:
> The word is correctly pronounced by speech synthesizers. (There should be a
> small pause between *hyphe* and *nation* to hear the difference). I didn't
> hear any aural problems for that usage. So, the pause is not a bug of
> synthesizers.

Soft hyphenation characters are not intended to be pronounced/announced.
They're a signal that this is a potential hyphenation point to
*visually* break the word. Speech synthesizers should not pause, as they
shouldn't pause for CSS automatic hyphenation.

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