In `Text` composable if word does not fit in the line it goe

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In `Text` composable if word does not fit in the line it goes to the next line Is it possible to still leave the word in the same line and have that hard break of the word Example ```Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry Lore m Ipsum has been the industry s standar d dummy text ever since the 1500s ```

Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] · Answer

We re in the process of designing a line breaking API but as of right now i don t believe there s any way to get the Text composable to do this

K Merle · Answer

Seems like replacing white space char with a no line break characters does the trick of keeping text in a same line example above <https en wikipedia org wiki Whitespace character>

Rick Regan · Answer

I have been doing this and it works well I put a uFEFF after characters like space period and forward slash Check out this <https issuetracker google com u 1 issues 178614928|feature request> I wrote in Jan 2021 and star if you like grinning

Alex Vanyo · Answer

That s a neat trick ```val sourceText = Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry Lorem Ipsum has been the industry s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s val modifiedText = sourceText toList joinToString u200B Text modifiedText ```

Rick Regan · Answer

If I use ` u200B ` instead of ` uFEFF ` in my code I don t get the non breaking behavior

Alex Vanyo · Answer

Is the space there intentional

Alex Vanyo · Answer

` uFEFF` also works for me although the Wikipedia article says that one is deprecated

Alex Vanyo · Answer

` u2060` also works I m just trying all of these out for fun not sure how supported this is or if this is a reasonable approach There s also `TransformedText` and `VisualTransformation` which might be the correct thing to do for something like this

Rick Regan · Answer

The space was part of my quick and dirty test to replace space with space+non breaking space I neglected to remove it before I pasted it here

Rick Regan · Answer

I did not know ` uFEFF` was deprecated Thanks Maybe I will switch to ` u2060` which appears to works as well

Rick Regan · Answer

What s interesting is that sometime in the last year and a half plus that I ve been using Compose the forward slash and the period no longer cause a line break without the non breaking space if we weren t playing around with it right now I never would have known I wonder what could have changed I have a restricted set of special characters that my `Text` uses and at the time I experimented with all of them a left or right parenthesis for example never caused a problem and still don t Space period and forward slash were the three that I needed to insert the non breaking space after Now it appears only space requires it I don t know that I would remove the code in my app that inserts them just to be safe unless I got a definitive reason why the behavior changed

Rick Regan · Answer

And thanks I will look into `TransformedText` as the better way to do this

K Merle · Answer

< Rick Regan> Have you by any chance been adding hyphens at the end of lines I ve been experimenting yesterday and can t make it perfect for now

Siyamed · Answer

I didn t understand the problem question Is the screenshot desired or non desired output

Siyamed · Answer

I don t think in conpose line breaking changed intentionally It might be android usage and some tricks we played on staticlayout having a side effect

K Merle · Answer

< Siyamed> Code block was a desired output

Rick Regan · Answer

K Merle I have not used hyphens they re not part of my limited input characters

Rick Regan · Answer

Siyamed The desired behavior in this case is only line breaking forced by the end of the `Text` The use of the non breaking space for the few problematic symbols was how I dealt with it Having fewer symbols to account for is better in some sense but still I d like to know if it s a bug or a feature I ll see if I can figure out when it changed I m on the latest Compose and Material 3 currently and API 33 for that matter

Siyamed · Answer

Got it The need is allow break at letter boundaries instead of words

Rick Regan · Answer

And in my case specifically the words are numeric expressions and the letters are digits and symbols

Rick Regan · Answer

After looking into it I think it was my code that changed `Text` width and not line breaking behavior of forward slash and period Sorry for the false alarm