https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41652
--- Comment #11 from stfhell <stfh...@googlemail.com> --- (re Comment #10) I don't think it makes much sense to discuss the merits of various spaces or typography issues, Simo, especially on LO Bugzilla. The characters exist, people can use them, and LO should handle them as well as possible. The details are often just a matter of taste, or the willingness to distinguish among a dozen kinds of space characters... I think Roman's proposal (Comment #3) to let the user configure in Options/Writer/Compatibility how the classical "hard space" (encoded as U+00A0) should be handled (fixed-width as in Word or proportional as Unicode says) is a very practical solution. The Compatibility menu gives users the choice to set an option just for the current file or use it as a default. If you decide to go with Unicode standards and configure a proportional U+00A0, you can use the characters that Unicode has defined as fixed-width spaces: U+2000 to U+200A, U+202F, U+205F. The problem here is interoperability with MS Word, because Word, as said, displays all characters not defined in the font as "box characters". But probably this is becoming less of a problem. I had a look at some fonts: For Windows 7, Microsoft supplies fonts that actually define the various Unicode spaces. So it would be users of older Windows versions or users of the many fonts with a more restricted character set that would see the "box character". You can, as a workaround, format all fixed-width spaces in Verdana, Times New Roman or some other Unicode font to avoid that (somewhat, at least). You can use fileformat.info to check some font glyph sets: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/202f/fontsupport.htm (for U+202F), or you can use the character map application of the OS. I have no idea how comprehensive the fonts that come with MacOS are, or if Word for Mac has the same "box character" issue as Word for Win. Would be good to know... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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