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(Native Thai speaking.)

The worst thing about "not using space" when it comes to computer is that it's nearly impossible to do word-breaking/line-breaking without relying on dictionary[1] which is very hard to convince software developers not using system text engine to add support for line breaking[2].

The suffer still continues to this date, Android, for instance, still lack a proper support (break by character instead of word) and few apps lack of Thai word-breaking support at all (Twitter, whose only do word break by space).

[1]: http://linux.thai.net/svn/software/libthai/trunk/data/ [2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7969 it took Mozilla 9 years. Opera, on the other hand, still lacks proper Thai support.




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