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#53 English (US) hyphenation is broken

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2016-01-02
2011-02-07
Anonymous
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The automatic hyphenation for English language texts appears to generate incorrect results more often than correct. The most obvious errors occur when it divides one-syllable words ("there", "like", "find", "paid", "years"), but it also often splits on the wrong side of a dividing consonant ("chi-ldren", "photog-raph", "certific-ation", "revea-ling"). I understand that developing and testing rules for non-native languages can be difficult, and would be willing to volunteer help either in creating or testing dictionary/rulesets for English.

For small-screen devices such as smart-phones I consider hyphenation to be a necessity, and quality of implementation is a major differentiator between eReader implementations.

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  • Vadim Lopatin

    Vadim Lopatin - 2011-02-07
    • assigned_to: nobody --> buggins
    • status: open --> open-accepted
     
  • RockFox

    RockFox - 2016-01-02

    I set Hyphenation in Setting to None and that didn't work. So I tried Greek hyphanation and that solved the problem because there are no Greek words in my english .txt file.

     

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