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

From: Eric Muller (emuller@adobe.com)
Date: Sun Apr 04 2004 - 13:29:02 EDT

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Kenneth Whistler wrote:

>Uh, no. <ZWNBSP, SPACE, ZWNBSP> is equivalent to <NBSP>.
>
I suspect that "equivalent" is only for some aspects.

In particular, NBSP has a bidi category of CS, which means that "A
0<NBSP>7 B" (in bidi notation) displays as "B 0 7 A", while "A 0<ZWNBSP,
SPACE, ZWNBSP>7 B" displays as "B 7 0 A".

Eric.

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