RE: No Invisible Character - NBSP at the start of a word

From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Wed Nov 24 2004 - 15:50:25 CST

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    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
    > [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of John Hudson
    > Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 11:01 PM
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    > Subject: Re: No Invisible Character - NBSP at the start of a word
    >
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    > Jony Rosenne wrote:
    >
    > > Ketiv and Qere, were two different words are written
    > together, are not plain
    > > text and are thus out of scope for Unicode.
    >
    > Writing them in a combined way results in some sequences of
    > characters that are very
    > problematic from a rendering perspective, but there is a long
    > standing tradition of
    > writing them in combination. Saying that people should cease
    > writing them as they have
    > been written, and write them only separately doesn't seem to
    > me to be much of a solution.

    This isn't what I said. I said it isn't a Unicode problem because it isn't
    plain text.

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