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Asked: 2026-05-13T20:58:46+00:00

The TextWrapping feature in Silverlight is described here . However, I’m trying to find

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The TextWrapping feature in Silverlight is described here. However, I’m trying to find out the details of their line-breaking algorithm.

Obviously a space will cause the text to break (or split), encouraging the text to wrap to the next line. And through trial and error I’ve found that these characters also cause a split:

  • \t (tab)
  • –
  • !
  • ?

But I doubt this is the full list. Has anyone found the full list of split characters (including Unicode)? Or do you have any clever suggestions for figuring this out that I haven’t thought of yet? Trial and error can be slow.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’d guess every character that qualifies as space or punctuation, excluding the explicitly non-breaking characters.

    However, there is a specified algorithm for line breaking: Unicode Standard Annex #14: Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm.

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