Mix “Japanese hyphens” and Extender Lines in Lyrics

Dorico has an option called ‘Use Japanese hyphens instead of entender line’ in Lyrics sections in Engraving Options. However, it is common for Japanese and English lyrics to be mixed together.
When the option is off:


When the option is on:

Ideal state:
(Note that the text is centred rather than left-aligned.)
At present, there seems to be no easy way to achieve this. This is explained in the following article:

It is written in Japanese, but Google Translate should be sufficient to understand it. I would like to have these mixed functions. Or, if anyone knows of a good method, please let me know.

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Indeed, there is no good way to achieve this at present. We could potentially make it possible to mix these in the same project in future, but it will require some careful thought.

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To add to this, it would be useful to have this function for Korean as well (or any other language that requires dash under each notes rather than a continuous extender line)

@hesangasong-ssi, annyeonghaseyo? Quite right!

In Japanese language, “ー” (U+30FC) is used. How about in Korean?