Yannis Haralambous wrote:
In fact, Arabic is not hyphenated.
That is presumably because of the existence of the /kashida/, Yanni.
What is interesting is that the W3C notes that the Arabic /script/ (as
opposed to the /language) /may be hyphenated, and offers Uyghur as
example —
When shaping scripts such as Arabic are allowed to break within words
due to hyphenation, the characters must still be shaped as if the word
were not broken <https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/#word-break-shaping>
(see § 5.6 Shaping Across Intra-word Breaks
<https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/#word-break-shaping>).
For example, if the Uyghur word “داميدى” were hyphenated, it would
appear as [isolated DAL + isolated ALEF + initial MEEM + medial YEH +
hyphen + line-break + final DAL + isolated ALEF MAKSURA] not as
[isolated DAL + isolated ALEF + initial MEEM + final YEH + hyphen +
line-break + isolated DAL + isolated ALEF MAKSURA]
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