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11/04/2008, 16h23

Scripsit Andreas Prilop:

> On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
>
>> (And applying them indiscriminately leads to poor results,
>> like breaking after "-" even in a context like
>> "the temperature is -8 degrees".)
>
> If you did not use a minus sign U+2212 here, you deserve it
> to be punished.

Much more than half of the world uses hyphen-minus in the function of
minus sign, so the browser behavior is wrong for this reason, too.
Moreover, the breaking problem also applies to things like "The constant
EOF is defined as (-1)", where it would be quite inappropriate to use a
minus sign, even though the expression refers to a negative number.

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

11/04/2008, 16h23	#20
Jukka K. Korpela Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: How to wrap text in <p> tag if the text has no spaces and is very long Scripsit Andreas Prilop: > On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Jukka K. Korpela wrote: > >> (And applying them indiscriminately leads to poor results, >> like breaking after "-" even in a context like >> "the temperature is -8 degrees".) > > If you did not use a minus sign U+2212 here, you deserve it > to be punished. Much more than half of the world uses hyphen-minus in the function of minus sign, so the browser behavior is wrong for this reason, too. Moreover, the breaking problem also applies to things like "The constant EOF is defined as (-1)", where it would be quite inappropriate to use a minus sign, even though the expression refers to a negative number. -- Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca") http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/