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

From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Sun Apr 04 2004 - 08:24:07 EDT

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>Peter Kirk <[email protected]> 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.

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