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[articles/typography/linebreak] Japanese writing system #472

Open xfq opened 1 year ago

xfq commented 1 year ago

[source] (https://www.w3.org/International/articles/typography/linebreak#sec_preventing) [en]

This type of wrapping is sometimes referred to as syllabic, but actually Japanese is a mora-based script, rather than a syllable-based one.

Japanese uses a combination of three scripts (kanji, hiragana, and katakana), so "writing system" might be more appropriate here?

himorin commented 1 year ago

Point might be Hiragana and Katakana are mostly mora-based, but contracted sound (or diphthongs??) ones (such as ゃ) are some kind of exception??