Tibetan doesn't wrap properly in most web browsers        rev 28 september 2010
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Q: Tibetan font wrapping is not working properly. 

A: The wrapping problem is in the browser: 
Most browsers are made by western programmers, and us westerners expect 
spaces between words. So the browser programmers make the browser 
to break up a line at a space. 

Since Tibetan (and a few other languages) use different symbol to divide words,
the programmers need to know about that. In the newest FireFox Tibetan does wrap ok,
also in Google Chrome -- somebody finally told the programmers!

A bit more:
If we are programmers, we can solve this problem for our own website, 
by writing a program that parses our Tibetan content (from database or from file) 
and puts an "optional space" between each character, or better, in place of the "tsok" character. 
I haven't done this yet, but i've read about it  :)

Theoretically ... you just write  a php script ...
that sucks up the content, and sticks the wbr code between each letter.
If you have ever written any php script to open a file, and do search and replace ....
that would be how to do it.
In practical ... i haven't done it yet!  so i'm not much help there.
you would, say, check for every tsak in content and replace it with
that tsak plus <wbr>

> tibettimes.net is working properly ...
Yes - because the above is what tibettimes did:
"View source" or use Firebug on any page there, and you will see many span tags
in the Tibetan, and also the tags <wbr></wbr> between every Tibetan character.

 What is this "<wbr>"?
 http://www.quirksmode.org/oddsandends/wbr.html
 "The <wbr> tag is very useful but unfortunately too little known."

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