On 8 May 2005, at 4:30 am, Walter Underwood wrote:
White space is not particularly meaningful in some of these languages, so we cannot expect them to suddenly pay attention to that just so they can use Atom. There will be plenty of content from other formats with this linguistically meaningless white space.
So the idea is that whitespace should not appear at all in certain texts, and you'd like it to be stripped out at the consumer? There are only three possible ways for this to happen:
1) The consumer removes all whitespace, even in western texts
2) The consumer recognizes these languages and removes the whitespace automatically
3) The consumer is told what to do by an attribute
(1) is obviously not plausible, but included for completeness. (2) is impractical. (3) is plausible, but may or may not end up being implemented in all consumers, making it kind of useless.
I don't see how there's a better solution than texts that shouldn't be shown with whitespace not containing whitespace in the first place, which is what we have.
Graham
