On Jan 24, 2014, at 12:06 PM, Rick Mann <rm...@latencyzero.com> wrote:
>> I see there is such a thing as a nonbreak hyphen (U+2011) but the >> traditional Mac keyboard never emitted it. Opt-minus is an en dash (U+2013). >> For visual effect, it may serve your intention, but it does not parse the >> same. > > Must be what apps like Word and others did prior to OS X. Naw. There was almost no usage of Unicode in the classic OS*. Nor was there a decent built-in text layout framework**; any app needing more than totally bare-bones text editing had to do everything itself. Word has always had its own cross-platform editing engine. (OK, this is off-topic, but today's the 30th anniversary of the Mac, so it's nice to reflect on how far we've come even since 2000!) —Jens * In the late '90s there was ATSUI, but I don't think it got much use other than by Web browsers and the JVM. ** QuickDraw GX had some single-line-layout APIs but they were much lower-level than NSLayoutManager, plus no one used GX. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
