Bug 83934 - No line break opportunity between a slash and a latin character, in contradiction to the Unicode standard
Summary: No line break opportunity between a slash and a latin character, in contradic...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Text (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: Unspecified Unspecified
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
URL:
Keywords: InRadar
Depends on: 181169 195345
Blocks:
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Reported: 2012-04-13 12:56 PDT by mitz
Modified: 2019-04-30 12:58 PDT (History)
2 users (show)

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2019-04-30 12:56 PDT, Javier Fernandez 		no flags Details
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2019-04-30 12:58 PDT, Javier Fernandez 		no flags Details
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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