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Documenting gaps and requirements for support of Indic languages on the Web and in eBooks.
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Dandas are wrapped alone to the beginning of a line #77

Open r12a opened 4 years ago

r12a commented 4 years ago

In general, there are no issues with ordinary Tamil line-breaking. Line-break opportunities occur at the spaces between words, and characters that are not supposed to appear at a line start do not.

The exception to the latter is that । [U+0964 DEVANAGARI DANDA] and ॥ [U+0965 DEVANAGARI DOUBLE DANDA] will wrap alone to the beginning of a line if there is a space between them and the previous word. This is the case for all browsers.

Test: A line should not start with a danda character even if it is separated from the previous word by a space.

The impact of this is advanced, although it would be good to fix it.

r12a commented 4 years ago

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xfq commented 11 months ago

Discussing with Richard, it seems that Prohibited Break in UAX #14 should be used for this kind of usage.