On Aug 5, 2005, at 1:15, Simon Siemens wrote:

> However what has not been addressed by HTML up to
> now are compound words. I suppose, this is because English does not  
> have
> them to a relevant extend. But German e.g. has many compound words  
> (like
> "Bundesregierung": "Bund" + "Regierung"). Thus an ability to indicate
> such compositions could really enhance search engine results from a
> German point of view.

Why not use the the word joiner (2060) character? Excerpted from  
Unicode:

Word Joiner behaves like   in that it indicates the absence of  
word boundaries; however, the word joiner has no width. For example,  
the word joiner can be inserted after the fourth character in the  
text ?base+delta? to indicate that there should be no line break  
between the ?e? and the ?+?. The word joiner should be ignored in  
contexts other than word or line breaking.

- Devin Bayer