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Originally Posted by Quoth
But will an ordinary customer of an ebook have other than the stock dictionaries or even know how to add them?
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Probably not.
Only the hardcorest of hardcore will probably mess with hyphenation dictionaries. And you need a more open device too (like Kobo).
But this does come up, especially when:
- dealing with languages that aren't on the device itself.
- Like Hungarian or Portuguese or Welsh.
- you want to tweak awful defaults
- Every language has a proper "left/right hyphenmin".
- This sets how many characters must appear before a word's allowed to break. (See Hyphenation.org for proper left/rights.)
- English should use 2/3.
- Kobo accidentally set theirs to 5/5, so only 10+ letter words would hyphenate!
For some more details, see JSWolf's hyphenation thread. (It does also seem to be one of the more popular topics in the Kobo Developer section [over 50k hits].)
And on the browser front:
Firefox/Safari have proper multi-language hyphenation (Chrome only supports English).
For an entire list of current browser's hyphenation status, see:
MDN: "hyphens" > Browser Compatibility.
... but hyphenation is still getting better all the time.
These hyphenation enhancements will trickle down to devices/programs eventually.
