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Originally Posted by Hadrien
Yes, as long as you have the language in the metadata, you can support hyphenation on the reading software.
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For optimal support you do need at least enough support in your source format to be able to express hyphenation points not found by the hyphenation algorithm and to suppress hyphenation points it identifies incorrectly. The Unicode soft hyphen covers the first case, but the second needs some sort of format support.
Somewhat relevantly, has anyone else seen
Prince? Beautiful (PDF) rendering from (X)HTML + CSS input, complete with hyphenation, (LaTeX-style) floats, headers, etc. I'd love see someone use their rendering engine in an e-book reader.