Alexander Savenkov suggested:
Why not? I think Peter needs a good book on typesetting to find out
what is inserted inserted between Louis and XIV. In this case IIRC
there should be the following sequence: Louis,ZWNBSP,SP,ZWNBSP,XIV.
Kenneth Whistler replied:
Uh, no. ZWNBSP, SPACE, ZWNBSP
Hello,
2004-04-03T02:01:34+03:00 /|/|ike Ayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That is arguable. An aural user agent could pronounce 1, 2, 3 a bit
different from 1, 2, 3 if there is a (say) thin space between the
digits in the latter case. It could pronounce it quicker, for example.
It *could* do
2004-04-03T02:34:38+03:00 D. Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It only affects its (visual) aesthetic
quality.
That is arguable. An aural user agent could pronounce 1, 2, 3 a bit
different from 1, 2, 3 if there is a (say) thin space between the
digits in the latter case. It could
On 02/04/2004 15:01, Asmus Freytag wrote:
...
Think of the example of SHY (soft hyphen), used to mark possible
hyphenation
points in a word. A while ago we had a discussion on this list where
there was
an interesting minimal pair of German compounds:
Wachs|tu-be (tube of (or made of) wax)
Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] write:
But the good screen reader would still need to distinguish their
pronunciations. Is there any type of character which could be defined,
in Unicode, to preserve this distinction, but to be completely hidden in
display? Perhaps some kind of zero width
There is at least one instance where NBSP had best be treated
as a fixed width space, when it is used as thousands separator as in
100 000. Unicode recognizes it for this use by assigning NBSP the
Bidi Class of CS. I doubt if anyone is going to seriously argue that the
space between 100 and 000
On 03/04/2004 13:24, D. Starner wrote:
Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] write:
But the good screen reader would still need to distinguish their
pronunciations. Is there any type of character which could be defined,
in Unicode, to preserve this distinction, but to be completely hidden in
[Original Message]
From: Philippe Verdy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is at least one instance where NBSP had best be treated
as a fixed width space, when it is used as thousands separator as in
100 000. Unicode recognizes it for this use by assigning NBSP the
Bidi Class of CS. I doubt
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