Bug 33798

Summary:	Soft hyphens wrongly rendered
Product:	[Applications] konqueror	Reporter:	ghk
Component:	khtml	Assignee:	Konqueror Bugs <konqueror-bugs-null>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description ghk 2001-10-17 10:01:12 UTC

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Package:           khtml
Version:           KDE 2.2.1 
Severity:          normal
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
Compiler:          Not Specified
OS:                Linux
OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified

The HTML entity &shy; (&#173;) is used to suggest to the browser where a (long) word should be broken if the text wraps to another line.

Konqueror always renders &shy; as a hyphen even when the word doesn't wrap. In addition Konqueror never wraps at soft hyphens only at word boundaries.

The preferred solution would be for Konqueror to fully understand &shy; and render it invisible when the word doesn't wrap and as a hyphen when the word does wrap.

A simpler solution would be to never wrap at &shy; (like today) but always render the soft hyphen as invisible. Always rendering &shy; as a hyphen is just plain wrong always hiding it is a bit better.

Regards
 Gaute Hvoslef Kvalnes

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)

Comment 1 Daniel Naber 2002-03-23 23:38:44 UTC

Thank you for your bug report.
This bug/feature request has already been reported and this report will
be marked as a duplicate.


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