From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Mon Aug 11 2003 - 15:15:18 EDT
John Hudson scripsit:
> Again, you are working on the assumption that U+0020 is represented by an
> actual painted glyph and not e.g. by a horizontal offset. In my experience,
> the more sophisticated the application -- e.g. a professional page layout
> application rather than a word processor -- the more likely it is that
> white space characters will not be consistently treated as painted glyphs.
I'm working on the assumption that applications that claim to conform to
Unicode actually do conform to it. If they don't, and it's not the font
foundry's fault, then complain, complain, complain! It's not Unicode
that's broken, it's the implementation.
> I've heard convincing arguments from the engineeers of such applications
> that the space character shouldn't be a glyph in the font at all, but
> should simply be a numeric value telling applications how large an offset
> to apply. Since most fonts do not contain glyphs for variant white space
> characters such as thin and hair spaces, applications typically treat these
> as offset values. Painting a glyph is only one way to represent a character.
Nothing in the Unicode Standard says those oddball spaces have to work
"correctly" with combining diacritics.
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