line break within Hebrew word
InDesign frequently breaks lines of Hebrew text in the middle of words. The work around is to add a Zero Length Joiner, but that can be a tedious process, especially when InDesign keeps that word together but breaks the line in the middle of a different word.
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This issue seems to be caused by the use of precomposed Hebrew ligatures (like שׁ or וֹ) instead of standard decomposed Unicode sequences.
In particular, line breaks often occur inside words containing a Holam Vav (וֹ, U+FB4B), which InDesign misinterprets as a valid break point. Re-typing the word (or pasting it as plain text) normalizes the characters to standard Unicode (ו + ֹ), and the problem goes away.
You do not need to use a Zero Width Joiner. Just make sure the text is using decomposed Unicode characters. Copying Hebrew from Word or PDFs often introduces these ligatures, so normalizing the text or retyping it in InDesign is a better long-term fix.
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Anonymous commented
This has been going on for years and has not been fixed