Re: Fixed Width Spaces

From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Mon Apr 05 2004 - 16:35:43 EDT

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    On 05/04/2004 10:14, Mike Ayers wrote:

    >
    > > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
    > > Behalf Of Philippe Verdy
    > > Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 7:56 AM
    >
    > > Yes but NBSP cannot be used in most books or in some legal
    > > accounting documents,
    > > due to its too large minimum width which allows a digit to be
    > > inserted. In
    > > France, for some legal documents, grouping digits can be done
    > > with a space, but
    > > the width of that space must be thin enough to not allow inserting any
    > > additional digit in the middle. This is important for bank
    > > checks and money
    > > orders for example, and as well this thin space must not be breakable.
    >
    > The implication here is that plain text Unicode would be used
    > for legal documents. Given that my lawyer would send me emails in
    > highly marked up format, I find this very difficult to grasp. Is
    > there any evidence that plain text is even being considered for use in
    > legal documents?
    >
    >
    > /|/|ike
    >

    Evidence attached - one of many such legal texts on my computer, nearly
    all plain text only.

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    Peter Kirk
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