[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 20677] Webkit wraps between hyphen–minus and numeric characters

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20677


Edward Sabol <edwardjsabol at iname.com> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Edward Sabol <edwardjsabol at iname.com>  2009-09-30 12:24:32 PDT ---
I work in the astronomy/astrophysics field, and this undesirable behavior
causes a lot of problems for us. We have large tables of astronomical catalogs
which we render in HTML for easy reference. In some cases, WebKit will wrap
inside of a table cell even when the negative number is the only text inside
the table cell!

Please modify WebKit to adhere to the Unicode recommendation and match Firefox.
Matching Internet Explorer's buggy behavior in this regard is not at all
desirable.

As for hyphens appearing in phone numbers and URLs, one should be able to
differentiate between numbers and those other cases. With numbers, the hyphen
is preceded by either whitespace or it's at the beginning of the text node.
That's not the case for hyphens in phone numbers or in URLs, typically.

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