[css-text-3][css-text-4] Language-specific rules apply to explicit hyphenation opportunities, too. w3c#5973

Author: fantasai

css-text-3/Overview.bs

@@ -4337,6 +4337,9 @@ Hyphenation: the 'hyphens' property</h3>
 		<dd>
 			Words are only hyphenated where there are characters inside the word
 			that explicitly suggest [=hyphenation opportunities=].
+			The UA must use the appropriate language-specific hyphenation character(s)
+			and should apply any appropriate spelling changes
+			just as for automatic hyphenation at the same point.
 
 			<wpt>
 			hyphens/hyphens-overflow-001.html
@@ -4370,7 +4373,7 @@ Hyphenation: the 'hyphens' property</h3>
 			Words may be broken at [=hyphenation opportunities=]
 			determined automatically by a language-appropriate hyphenation resource
 			in addition to those indicated explicitly by a conditional hyphen.
-			Automatic [=hyphenation opportunities=] within a word must be ignored
+			Automatic [=hyphenation opportunities=] elsewhere within a word must be ignored
 			if the word contains a conditional hyphen
 			(&amp;shy; or U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN),
 			in favor of the conditional hyphen(s).
@@ -7897,6 +7900,15 @@ Recent Changes</h3>
 
 	* Define that ''distribute'' computes to ''inter-character'', rather than merely behave the same.
 		(<a href="https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6156">Issue 6156</a>)
+	* Clarify that language-specific hyphenation rules also apply to explicit [=hyphenation opportunities=].
+		(<a href="https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5973">Issue 5973</a>)
+		<blockquote>
+			Words are only hyphenated where there are characters inside the word
+			that explicitly suggest [=hyphenation opportunities=].
+			<ins>The UA must use the appropriate language-specific hyphenation character(s)
+			and should apply any appropriate spelling changes
+			just as for automatic hyphenation at the same point.</ins>
+		</blockquote>
 
 	In addition there have been some minor editorial fixes.
 

css-text-4/Overview.bs

@@ -5274,6 +5274,9 @@ Hyphenation Control: the 'hyphens' property</h4>
 		<dd>
 			Words are only hyphenated where there are characters inside the word
 			that explicitly suggest [=hyphenation opportunities=].
+			The UA must use the appropriate language-specific hyphenation character(s)
+			and should apply any appropriate spelling changes
+			just as for automatic hyphenation at the same point.
 
 			<wpt>
 			hyphens/hyphens-overflow-001.html
@@ -5307,7 +5310,7 @@ Hyphenation Control: the 'hyphens' property</h4>
 			Words may be broken at [=hyphenation opportunities=]
 			determined automatically by a language-appropriate hyphenation resource
 			in addition to those indicated explicitly by a conditional hyphen.
-			Automatic [=hyphenation opportunities=] within a word must be ignored
+			Automatic [=hyphenation opportunities=] elsewhere within a word must be ignored
 			if the word contains a conditional hyphen
 			(&amp;shy; or U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN),
 			in favor of the conditional hyphen(s).