Question

First off, I don’t speak/read Japanese, making this a bit tricky.

But in researching Japanese internationalization for websites, I started looking into some reportedly popular news sites (Yomiuri.co.jp and Asahi.com) and it doesn’t look like they have any solutions implemented to prevent word segmentation. The browser is doing the basic kinsoku shori with punctuation/brackets/etc, but the sites both have flexible layouts and you can watch as most characters wrap individually.

Is this normal/understood/accepted? Seems awfully awkward.

Thanks!
Mike

Answer 1

Kinsoku Shori as well as the other CJK line-breaking rules are the responsibility of the layout engine, not the document itself.