<Hyphenation got announced in 1.3.0rc01>. Tried it out but I’m unable to figure out the difference i...

# compose

[lilypuchi]

Hyphenation got announced in 1.3.0rc01. Tried it out but I’m unable to figure out the difference in the behaviors🤔 (Couldn’t see the hyphen too…) Added the soft-hyphen also as follows "Hyphenation \u00AD is here!" to see any behavior changes. Couldn’t figure it out though 🥲 〜 Am I missing something ?

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[lilypuchi]

Not a native English speaker but couldn’t figure out this test case too

https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/frameworks/support/+/2218466/4/compose/ui[…]/kotlin/androidx/compose/ui/text/style/HyphensTest.kt

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

Have you tried running on a device or emulator?

[lilypuchi]

On device it’s the same (running on a Pixel4)

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

No hyphens on the Pixel4 either?

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

Please file a bug with all this information

[Anastasia [G]]

If you change the LineBreak to something other than Simple, does it help?

[lilypuchi]

Yup still no hyphen.
Will do 👍

[lilypuchi]

If you change the LineBreak to something other than Simple, does it help?

Let me try this out

[lilypuchi]

Text(
    modifier = Modifier.width(textWidth),
    text = text,
    style = TextStyle(
        fontSize = 24.sp,
        color = Color.Red,
        hyphens = Hyphens.Auto,
        lineBreak = LineBreak.Heading
    )
)

Get’s even weirder 😅 (on Pixel4)

[Anastasia [G]]

What Android version is this?

[lilypuchi]

13

[Anastasia [G]]

Thanks! Please file a bug as Zach suggested above

[lilypuchi]

Sure will! Thanks!!

[Anastasia [G]]

Quick follow-up. What locale do you have on a device?

[Anastasia [G]]

Is it English?

[lilypuchi]

It’s Japanese 😅 Let me try it out with English once

[Anastasia [G]]

Yeah, it should work with English

[lilypuchi]

Yup works 🎉 🎉 Should I go ahead filing the bug ? Updating the docs or an Appropriate Locale warning or something would help blob smile

[Anastasia [G]]

I think updating the docs will be helpful

[Anastasia [G]]

so please file a bug so we don’t forget

[lilypuchi]

Filed https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/251458949 👍

[Siyamed]

Can you try setting the locale of the text using TextStyle?

It might be that Text doesn't know the language and tries to apply system locale dictionaries.

[Siyamed]

In this case english text on japanese locale will not be able to find hyphen candidates

[Siyamed]

It is similar to this html desc

"Hyphenation rules are language-specific. In HTML, the language is determined by the lang attribute, and browsers will hyphenate only if this attribute is present and the appropriate hyphenation dictionary is available. "