Re: dotted circle

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2006 - 09:23:46 CDT

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    Michael Everson <everson at evertype dot com> wrote:

    > At 13:57 +0100 2006-07-11, Jonathan Kew wrote:
    >
    >> NBSP is not a solution here, because it will (should) result in the
    >> combining mark being displayed on a space, rather than combined with
    >> the preceding letter. That *might* be OK, depending exactly how the
    >> font is designed, for U+0BBE, for example, but not for U+0B82.
    >
    > It sounds to me as though we need an INVISIBLE LETTER.
    >
    > See http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2822.pdf

    INVISIBLE LETTER would cause the combining mark to be displayed on a
    space, just like SPACE or NBSP, but without the processing pitfalls.
    Jonathan seems to be saying that is precisely *not* the desired
    rendering behavior.

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    Doug Ewell
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