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As part of internationalizing an Android application I have come across the need to dynamically word wrap or hyphenate at the right position.
All my strings are externalized in strings.xml files but I have not found any documentation about hyphenation in Android.
I would like to be able to suggest hyphenation positions similar to how I can do it in LaTeX:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphenation_algorithm
But I have not found any indication if this is possible. Is there anything in the framework I have missed? What are other people doing e.g. with Japanese strings that have no obvious position to break up a sentence? Do you just add spaces at the correct positions?
I could dynamically size the font to fit into certain layouts but for longer messages that go across multiple lines that won't work. What to do?
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Enable automatic hyphenation in Word Click on Layout or Page Layout, depending on your version of Word. In the Page Setup area, select“Hyphenation”. Set a check mark next to “Automatic”.
On the Layout tab, click the arrow next to Hyphenation . Select Hyphenation Options. In the Limit consecutive hyphens box, type the maximum number, and then click OK.
The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation.
Its a new thing from Android 6 Marshmellow.
Try adding this to your TextView xml
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