Line breaking at orthographic syllable boundaries

August 22, 2022

Norbert Lindenberg has proposed to introduce support for line breaking at orthographic syllable boundaries into Unicode Standard Annex #14, Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm. This style of line breaking has long been documented as a requirement for several Brahmic scripts, but has so far not been supported in the standard algorithm.

• Proposal: Line breaking at orthographic syllable boundaries.
• Comparison of current and proposed line breaking for: Balinese, Batak, Grantha, and Javanese.