Bug 83934

Summary:

No line break opportunity between a slash and a latin character, in contradiction to the Unicode standard

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

mitz

Component:

Text

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

NEW ---

Severity:

Normal

CC:

ap, jfernandez

Priority:

Keywords:

InRadar

Version:

528+ (Nightly build)

Hardware:

Unspecified

OS:

Unspecified

Bug Depends on:

195345, 181169

Bug Blocks:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Test case to reproduce the issue	none
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Description mitz 2012-04-13 12:56:12 PDT

<rdar://problem/11246877>

WebKit doesn’t recognize a line breaking opportunity between a slash and a latin character (e.g. after the slash in “before/after”), but the Unicode standard, specifically UAX #14, says that there is a line break opportunity there (see <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/#SY>). The Unicode behavior allows long URLs to wrap better.

See also bug 37698.

Comment 1 Alexey Proskuryakov 2012-04-13 13:36:38 PDT

Mitz also mentioned to me that a potential downside is that we'll wrap strings like "km/h", which can be particularly bad in table titles.

Comment 2 Javier Fernandez 2019-04-30 08:33:32 PDT

I think this bug could be solved once we implement line-break; anywhere and overflow-wrap: anywhere

Comment 3 Javier Fernandez 2019-04-30 12:54:43 PDT

As a matter of fact, I'm not sure whether this bug should be marked as FIXED. There are indeed breaking opportunities between a slash and a latin character by using the 'word-break: break-all' feature. 

Attached a test case and the rendering result using trunk (r244730)

Comment 4 Javier Fernandez 2019-04-30 12:56:50 PDT

Created attachment 368590 [details]
Test case to reproduce the issue

Comment 5 Javier Fernandez 2019-04-30 12:58:16 PDT

Created attachment 368591 [details]
Actual result