One of the main issues here would be source-code readability (people will have to add another step to the build-process and the folks using static content will

One of the main issues here would be source-code readability (people will have to add another step to the build-process and the folks using static content will have some difficulty). An elegant solution I can think of is to implement this as django middleware and hyphenates all the content by default. I don't know about the performance impact of this. But if there is an approximate solution you can create which doesn't require dictionaries, you can port that to javascript as a library which can then instrument all the elements in a class with these soft hyphens. This will also solve the performance issue and can be introduced very unobtrusively into virtually any application. And also any potential SEO concerns are alleviated.