Re: Display of Isolated Nonspacing Marks (was Re: Questions on ZWNBS...)

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 18:00:45 EDT

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    Mark Davis scripsit:

    > Where did you get the notion that space is not a base character? And
    > base characters include those that are not control or format
    > characters. Space is neither one.

    Unfortunately, p. 88 of TUS3.0 (section 4.5, paragraph 3) says
    "Zs, Zl, and Zp [characters] are considered format characters."
    This is obviously wrong, but there it is.

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