Open Bug 956213 Opened 12 years ago Updated 3 years ago

Hyphenate before interword capital letter

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Text and Fonts
Version:
28 Branch
Type:
enhancement

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People

(Reporter: GPHemsley, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: intl)

A pet peeve of mine is seeing newspapers hyphenate "eB-ay" and "iP-hone", when it seems a simple fix would just be to add a rule to hyphenate before an interword capital letter and get "e-Bay" and "i-Phone". I'm not sure whether the hyphenation feature in Gecko has this exact problem, but here is a similar example: http://soledadpenades.com/2013/12/29/demozoo-is-back/ In the last paragraph, Aurora 28 shows "Ac-tiveRecord", but it would be better displayed as "Active-Record"; a rule that hyphenates before an interword capital letter would make that happen. (I'm not sure what the consequences might be for non-English, so this perhaps would need to be a locale-specific feature or setting.)
Severity: normal → enhancement
Severity: normal → S3
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