Re: Fixed Width Spaces (was: Printing and Displaying DependentVowels)

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sun Apr 04 2004 - 08:24:07 EDT

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    >Peter Kirk <peterkirk@qaya.org> write:
    >
    >> But the good screen reader would still need to distinguish their
    >> pronunciations. Is there any type of character which could be defined,
    >> in Unicode, to preserve this distinction, but to be completely hidden in
    > > display? Perhaps some kind of zero width morpheme break character?

    Peter,

    A screen reader has to know how to distinguish between "read" [ri:d]
    and "read" [red] by some means other than insertion of a zero-width
    character.

    -- 
    Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
    


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