Support customizing the soft-hyphen character/string #189617

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   Clarify web hyphens TODOs; split render-wiring from custom-string

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7. Renzo-Olivares commented on Oct 15, 2026

   

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   @dbebawy That approach sounds good to me, though curious if @LongCatIsLooong had any thoughts. Maybe we should hold off on this customization until #189234 is fixed?
8. dbebawy commented on Oct 21, 2026

   

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   @Renzo-Olivares #189234 is fixed now. The Skia change (https://skia-review.googlesource.com/c/skia/+/1396916) has been in master since Oct 20. It also handles custom hyphen strings, so the drawn hyphen is selected together with its soft hyphen whatever the string is. Skia now also leaves room for the hyphen when breaking lines (#194582), using the custom string's width.

   So I think this is unblocked. I'll start on the hyphenCharacter API unless @LongCatIsLooong would prefer a different shape.
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10. dbebawy commented on Oct 24, 2026

    

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    @LongCatIsLooong Julia assigned this to me, so here is the shape I plan to use before I start:

    • String? hyphenCharacter on ui.ParagraphStyle, TextPainter, RenderParagraph, RichText and Text, the same way as hyphens. null keeps the default hyphen, and the framework asserts that it is not empty, since Hyphens.hidden already covers drawing nothing.
    • It reaches the paragraph through one more TextStyle.getParagraphStyle parameter. That breaks classes that override getParagraphStyle again, one release after hyphens did, so it would come with a migration guide.
    • Skia lays out the string as a single run, so the docs will recommend a short string, usually one character, that the text's font supports.

    Is that OK, in particular the second getParagraphStyle parameter?
11. hubot

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    [canvaskit] Add softHyphenString to ParagraphStyle

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12. dbebawy

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    Add ParagraphStyle.hyphenCharacter to dart:ui

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    [web] Pass hyphenCharacter to CanvasKit

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13. suryaKommana2662

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    Support soft hyphen (U+00AD) rendering with a Hyphens API (flutter#18…

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14. dbebawy

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    Add ParagraphStyle.hyphenCharacter to dart:ui

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    [web] Pass hyphenCharacter to CanvasKit

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15. chingjun

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    Add ParagraphStyle.hyphenCharacter to dart:ui (flutter#195345)

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