Devin Bayer wrote:

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> On Aug 5, 2005, at 1:15, Simon Siemens wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Why not use the the word joiner (2060) character? Excerpted from 
> Unicode:
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> 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
>
Thanks! I'll give it a try next week.

Simon