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Bug 11456 - In Swedish many words should be written together, like "Skumtomte" (Candy foam Santa) and not as "Skum tomte" (Weird/Strange Santa). I would like to be able to write "skum<wbr hypen>tomte" to denote that the word can be broken up to be equal as "skum-<br/
Summary: In Swedish many words should be written together, like "Skumtomte" (Candy foa...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-12-02 20:18 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:01 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2010-12-02 20:18:19 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-wbr-element

Comment:
In Swedish many words should be written together, like "Skumtomte" (Candy foam
Santa) and not as "Skum tomte" (Weird/Strange Santa). I would like to be able
to write "skum<wbr hypen>tomte" to denote that the word can be broken up to be
equal as "skum-<br/>tomte" (hyphenation). --→ Frank M. Eriksson [[
http://knarf.se/ ]]

Posted from: 81.228.157.103
Comment 1 Simon Pieters 2010-12-02 21:24:16 UTC 
Use skum&shy;tomte.
Comment 2 Philip Jägenstedt 2010-12-03 09:31:53 UTC 
Thanks Simon, I didn't know about this :) (Note: I didn't file this bug.)
Comment 3 Frank M. Eriksson 2010-12-03 13:11:04 UTC 
I did not know about &shy; but there is a problem, when it is entered as "skum&shy;tomte" one can not search for "skumtomte" within a document.

Therefore I think that "skum<wbr shy />tomte" or something like that would be better, Neverthe less I'll start using &shy; from now on. Even tough browsers could handle it a bit better (Should probably just be one line or two of code, just make a copy of searchable text and remove &shy; from it and from search query, then perform regular search function. That's a one-liner :)

Well,
Thank you Mr. Simon Pieters for informing me about the &shy; entity.

Best Regards,
Frank M. Eriksson
Comment 4 Simon Pieters 2010-12-03 13:22:08 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> I did not know about &shy; but there is a problem, when it is entered as
> "skum&shy;tomte" one can not search for "skumtomte" within a document.

That would be a browser bug, no?


> Therefore I think that "skum<wbr shy />tomte" or something like that would be
> better,

Why not just fix browsers so one can search across &shy;?


> Neverthe less I'll start using &shy; from now on. Even tough browsers
> could handle it a bit better (Should probably just be one line or two of code,
> just make a copy of searchable text and remove &shy; from it and from search
> query, then perform regular search function. That's a one-liner :)
> 
> Well,
> Thank you Mr. Simon Pieters for informing me about the &shy; entity.

You changed resolution to NEEDSINFO. That state usually indicates that more information is needed from the bug reporter. If you're happy with the spec as it is, WORKSFORME is the right resolution. If you think the spec should be changed, REOPEN the bug.
Comment 5 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:01:16 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1