Line-Breaking Behaviors in CJK Languages
Line-breaking behaviors for CJK languages are significantly different than they are for European languages. Arbortext Editor follows these guidelines for line breaking in both simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese (where it is called the kinsoku shori — prohibited character processing), and Korean (the geumchik rule):
• The significance of non-breaking punctuation symbols is much greater for CJK languages, since the text does not contain breaks between words as Latin-alphabet words do.
• Lines are broken between characters
• Leading characters which should never be the last character on a line (for example, leading punctuation or special characters like currency symbols) are identified and this restriction is honored.
• Following characters which should never be the first character on a line (for example, like close parentheses) are identified and this restriction is honored.