Text wrap without spaces

[peterqliu]

Languages like Chinese don't employ spaces between characters. How should we handle text wrapping for long labels without spaces?

[friedbunny]

We've had some discussions about this elsewhere — mapbox/mapbox-gl-native#1223 and mapbox/DEPRECATED-mapbox-gl#4 — but no real movement towards implementation yet.

/cc @mikemorris

[mikemorris]

Yea, our current line-breaking algorithm is pretty simple, mapbox/mapbox-gl-native#1223 covers the backstory here pretty well. AFAIK this is something that needs to be improved in our renderer, not the style spec.

[peterqliu]

cool, closing

[1ec5]

This is happening in mapbox/mapbox-gl-js#3420 and mapbox/mapbox-gl-native#6828.