[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 197889] New: Don’t hyphenate proper nouns in English

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197889

            Bug ID: 197889
           Summary: Don’t hyphenate proper nouns in English
           Product: WebKit
           Version: WebKit Nightly Build
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: Text
          Assignee: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
          Reporter: ragdoll at revoltpuppy.com
                CC: mmaxfield at apple.com

Created attachment 369874

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Reduced test case.

Steps to reproduce the problem: In CSS, set `-webkit-hyphens: auto;`.

What is the expected behavior?
Proper nouns, i.e. names, in English should never be hyphenated. If, for some reason, they do need to be hyphenated, that should be the edge case, not the other way around.

What went wrong?
Proper nouns get hyphenated. See the reduced test case.

Did this work before? No 

Does this work in other browsers? No
Chrome has the same problem: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=963039&can=2&q=hyphen%20proper%20nouns
Firefox currently has the same problem, but has opted to fix it by not hyphenating capitalized words (based on language; languages like German would still hyphenate capitalized words by default). This fix will be coming in Firefox 68: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1550532
Unsure about Edge, but Edge is now using Blink, so I expect it will be the same as Chrome.

Hyphen support is uniformly bad across all browsers, but they should be progressive enhancements. As it stands, turning on hyphens degrades the quality of the content and hyphenating proper nouns is the primary reason for that.

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