Comment 2 for bug 1543571

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Phill (phill-ridout) wrote :

Hi Sameum,

To a non Korean speaker this issue is a little difficult to understand. I've done some research, and it seems in certain situations like the text should only be broken on white space, while in other cases its permissible to break in word (between syllables)

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/#line-breaking has this to say:
"As another example, Korean has two styles of line-breaking: between any two Korean syllables (word-break: normal) or, like English, mainly at spaces (word-break: keep-all)."

http://nojeokhill.koreanconsulting.com/2013/05/korean-translation-tip-cardinal-rules-of-korean-language-layout.html Suggests that its all to do with alignment, and if the text is 'professional' or 'friendly' (see comment)

So there are a few options to fix this:
1. Always break on the white spaces. (Maybe with an option to turn this off or on)
2. Set in the theme
    A. Based on the alignment
    B. As an option independent of the alignment?

The following link is detailed and maybe of use (I have not read all through it yet!) http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/tr14-37.html