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Re: soft hyphens hard coded

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From: wolfgang.berndorfer
Date: Jan 12, 2021 8:16AM

Hi Patrick and all,

If shy is used exclusively for meaningful hyphenation off auto-hyphenation, it would also help to realize SC 3.1.6., I'd suppose.
I don't find a restriction for only *visual* usage of shy here:
https://unicode.org/reports/tr14/#SoftHyphen
Do you have any references for not to use shy for aural issues like in pronunciation?

It is a hack but is it also a possible mechanism for SC 3.1.6?
I looked it up and found that shy is not mentioned in the understanding-article for 3.1.6:
https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/meaning-pronunciation.html

But again, if shy were used exclusively for meaningful hyphenation off auto-hyphenation, it would also help to realize 3.1.6., I'd suppose. Two flies at once: meaningful visual hyphenation and pronunciation.

Wolfgang