In HTML and CSS, how do I make japanese text break lines correctly?

Question

I\'m writting a simple paragraph in both English and Japanese, using only HTML and CSS. The English text breaks lines normally (when a word doesn\'t fit on a line anymore, i

Answer 1

Japanese has specific rules that are followed when breaking text. They are called 禁則処理 (kinsoku shori). Here is a link explaining the rules. The rules are mostly concerned with special characters. Have a look at any popular Japanese webpage and you will see that multi-character (kana and kanji) words are often split. I often see です split between lines.

Update: I stumbled across this tool recently. I haven't tried it out yet, but the theory is solid. If someone is looking to improve the line breaks with Japanese text this could be a good solution.