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Re: soft hyphens hard coded

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jan 12, 2021 9:33AM

On 12/01/2021 15:16, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> 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?

I have a *lack* of references that it should in any way affect
pronunciation. And references talk about it being an invisible
indication that this is a position that user agents should use when
doing needing to hyphenate to fit a word into a particular line/where
they can visually break, for visual layout. Which all leads me to say
that it's not intended to be used to influence pronunciation in any way.

P
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