From: Peter Kirk (peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com)
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 17:14:47 EDT
On 09/08/2003 13:41, John Cowan wrote:
>Peter Kirk scripsit:
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>>The gap may not be large, but Philippe, John H and I have identified a
>>real gap. Why this antagonism against filling it?
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>What you have identified is a set of implementation defects, not problems
>with the Unicode Standard. The standard way to do what you want is to
>precede the combining mark with SP or NBSP. If that "doesn't work", then
>the implementation that makes it not work needs to be fixed.
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Tell Microsoft! (See Noah Levitt's posting.)
If this is indeed "The standard way to do what you want", then the
standard needs to make it clear that the sequence of <space, combining
mark> or <NBSP, combining mark> has the properties which I want, i.e. it
has the width of the combining mark alone, and not the full width of a
space, and does not expand for justification, is not a line breaking
opportunity, does not in fact have any of the properties of a space. I
expect to see such a clarification in the next edition of the Unicode
Standard.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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