@@ -2961,14 +2961,18 @@ Line Breaking and Word Boundaries</h2>
29612961 the UA must minimize the amount of content overflowing a line
29622962 by wrapping the line at a [=soft wrap opportunity=] ,
29632963 if one exists.
2964+ Valid [=soft wrapping opportunities=] depend
2965+ on the [=content language=] and writing system,
2966+ as well as on CSS properties that control them.
29642967
29652968 <wpt>
29662969 line-breaking/line-breaking-020.html
29672970 </wpt>
29682971
29692972 In most writing systems,
29702973 in the absence of hyphenation a [=soft wrap opportunity=] occurs only at word boundaries.
2971- Many such systems use [=spaces=] or punctuation to explicitly separate words,
2974+ Many such systems (such as English written using the Latin alphabet)
2975+ use [=spaces=] or punctuation to explicitly separate words,
29722976 and [=soft wrap opportunities=] can be identified by these characters.
29732977
29742978 Scripts such as Thai, Lao, and Khmer, however,
@@ -2980,15 +2984,14 @@ Line Breaking and Word Boundaries</h2>
29802984 to correctly identify [=soft wrap opportunities=] in such texts.
29812985
29822986 In some other writing systems,
2987+ notably Brahmic scripts such as Javanese and Balinese,
29832988 [=soft wrap opportunities=] are based on orthographic syllable boundaries,
29842989 not word boundaries.
2985- Some of these systems,
2986- notably Brahmic scripts such as Javanese and Balinese,
2987- require analysis of the text to find breaking opportunities.
2988- Unlike languages that use characters from the SA line breaking class,
2989- this analysis does not depend on the [=content language=]
2990- nor requires (language specific) [=word boundary detection=]
2991- or a lexical resource.
2990+ Although orthographic syllable breaking
2991+ does not depend on the [=content language=]
2992+ or require lexical resource,
2993+ it nonetheless requires analysis of the text
2994+ to find breaking opportunities.
29922995
29932996 In others such as Chinese (as well as Japanese, Yi, and sometimes also Korean),
29942997 each syllable tends to correspond to a single [=typographic letter unit=] ,
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