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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Yannis Haralambous wrote:<br>
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In fact, Arabic is not hyphenated.<br class="">
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That is presumably because of the existence of the <i>kashida</i>,
Yanni. What is interesting is that the W3C notes that the Arabic <i>script</i>
(as opposed to the <i>language) </i>may be hyphenated, and offers
Uyghur as example —<br>
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<p>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 <a
href="https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/#word-break-shaping">not
broken</a> (see <a
href="https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/#word-break-shaping">§ 5.6
Shaping Across Intra-word Breaks</a>). </p>
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<p>For example, if the Uyghur word “داميدى” were hyphenated, it
would appear as <img alt="[isolated DAL + isolated ALEF +
initial MEEM + medial YEH + hyphen + line-break + final DAL
+ isolated ALEF MAKSURA]"
src="https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/images/uyghur-hyphenate-joined.png">
not as <img alt="[isolated DAL + isolated ALEF + initial MEEM
+ final YEH + hyphen + line-break + isolated DAL + isolated
ALEF MAKSURA]"
src="https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/images/uyghur-hyphenate-unjoined.png">
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<i>** Phil.</i><br>
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