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Episode 194: Subtext

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Can You Enable Hyphenation in Platform Text Views?

It's interesting because one of the difficulties about text in general is that it's more than typically the language we use on this podcast like English. And there are definitely even, I'm thinking of German right now, right? Well, their language is we're having hyphenation is going to matter a lot more than in other languages and can make a big difference in readability. This summer we actually had an intern project to enable hyphenation as an API on the text composable. So that's necessary because it is not actually using text view.

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