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

From: Jony Rosenne (rosennej@qsm.co.il)
Date: Sat Nov 27 2004 - 00:38:08 CST

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    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org
    > [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of John Hudson
    > Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 1:21 AM
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    > Subject: Re: No Invisible Character - NBSP at the start of a word
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    > Jony Rosenne wrote:
    >
    > > One of the problems in this context is the phrase "original
    > meaning". What
    > > we have is a juxtaposition of two words, which is indicated
    > by writing the
    > > letters of one with the vowels of the other. In many cases
    > this does not
    > > cause much of a problem, because the vowels fit the
    > letters, but sometimes
    > > they do not. Except for the most frequent cases, there
    > normally is a note in
    > > the margin with the alternate letters - I hope everyone
    > agrees that notes in
    > > the margin are not plain text.
    >
    > Jony, what do you think plain text is? Why should the
    > arrangement of text on a page as a
    > marginal note be considered any differently from text
    > anywhere else *in its encoding*? Are
    > you suggesting that Unicode is only relevant to ... what?
    > totally unformatted text in a
    > text editor?

    Basically, yes. Except for the control codes in Unicode - spaces, line feed,
    carriage return, etc.

    To indicate formatting one uses markup.

    Jony

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