Bug 165092 - Soft hyphens break kerning
Summary: Soft hyphens break kerning
Status: RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: CSS (show other bugs)
Version: Safari 10
Hardware: Mac macOS 10.12
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
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Reported: 2016-11-28 10:09 PST by Rusty Key
Modified: 2022-06-14 16:51 PDT (History)
5 users (show)

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Shy breaks kerning in Safari 10 (32.96 KB, image/png)
2016-11-28 10:09 PST, Rusty Key 		no flags Details
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Description Rusty Key 2016-11-28 10:09:13 PST 
Created attachment 295492 [details]
Shy breaks kerning in Safari 10

Soft Hyphens (­ symbol) breaks font's kerning.

Here's an example: http://codepen.io/stfoo/pen/eBGzwW

There is letters pair "AV" that supposed to be kerned. Red ones show text without soft hyphens. First two has kerning switched on, last two — switched off.
Cyan pairs show text with soft hyphens. Kerning for cyan text is always on;

In Safari 10 i see this picture: http://d.pr/i/EPvt. It shows that text with hyphens is equal to text without kerning.
In other browsers (Chrome 54, Firefox 48) it works as intended: http://d.pr/i/t0Us. Soft hyphens are ignored.

Is it a bug?
Comment 1 Rusty Key 2017-05-30 03:31:35 PDT 
Safari 10.2, still bad kerning.
In Firefox and Chrome kerning in this situations works as anticipated: like there is no soft hyphen at all).
Comment 2 Ahmad Saleem 2022-06-14 16:49:51 PDT 
I am unable to reproduce this bug in Safari 15.5 on macOS 12.4. The Codeine in Comment 01 shows same output as referenced for Firefox and Chrome.

I think something fixed this along the line. Can this be marked as "RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED". Thanks!
Comment 3 Ryosuke Niwa 2022-06-14 16:51:47 PDT 
Nice