Open r12a opened 4 years ago
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This issue is applicable to Lao, but similar issues may apply to Thai, Myanmar, Khmer, etc.
Because Lao doesn't use spaces between words, but does wrap text at word boundaries, inter-word spaces can't be used for line-breaking. Occasionally zero-width spaces are inserted in the text, but these are not common and content authors tend to rely on the browser applying heuristics and dictionaries to locate word boundaries and insert break opportunities.
The CSS spec says the following, but the spec doesn't provide any specific rules or properties for Lao line-breaking.
More:
Tests & results:
Also @jmdurdin) - interactive test, [Lao text wraps the h in an initial cluster with the rest of the syllable](https://github.com/w3c/line_paragraph_tests/issues/58) - interactive test, [Lao breaks line around words rather than syllables ](https://github.com/w3c/line_paragraph_tests/issues/59) The success in dealing with the latter two tests depends on the quality of the dictionary. For example, none of the dictionaries used appear to recognise the word for dog when written as ຫມາ - they only recognise it with the initial ligature, as in ໝາ.
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