Compound words in Portuguese can have hyphen connecting their parts, like
"vice-presidente", for example.

Regards,

Carlos Menezes
CoGrOO Project


2009/6/8 Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <thomas.la...@sun.com>

>
>
> Hi Ruud,
>
>
> > Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg schreef:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Olivier R. wrote:
> >>
> >>> Per Eriksson a écrit :
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> I would like to know the status for 64400. What is the current status?
> >>>>
> >>> I would like to know also what solution will be applied.
> >>>
> >>> It would useful to prepare dictionaries accordingly.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> It is planned that hyphens should become part of the word as recognized
> >> by the breakiterator. The ecxact types of hyphens and languages where to
> >> apply this (probably all western languages at least, maybe all
> >> languages) is still up for discussion. From my point of view I currently
> >> see no reason why the same behavior should not be applied to all
> languages.
> >>
> > It would be best to have a design that has a language dependend
> > word-iteration.
> > Which chars can and cannot be part of a word is rather depending on the
> > language, plus the programmed behaviour of the components below that.
> > For Dutch, the -, the ' (under certain circumstances) are word chars.
>
> The breakiterator is locale specific and thus can be cusomized for each
> language. Still the question remains if that change should only be
> applied to every language listed in the issue or by default to all
> language since probably all are going to benfit from it.
>
>
> Thomas
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