Sorry, last rapid reply to my own email, I promise: Apparently there is U+2060: word joiner which is the exact same thing as a ZWSP except that it implies no line breaks. This has just about exactly the semantics we want, and seems like it would be a good candidate for how you disable styling on a specific piece of text.
I think I would prefer to have this over something that has to be namespaced and registered. It's more flexible, would make it easier to implement eg. a toolbar with bold and italic buttons (things get styled by default if you type them, if you highlight the whole thing and remove the styling it could cycle through just removing the styling but leaving the *'s, or removing the *'s etc. What do others think? —Sam On Mon, Jun 1, 2020, at 12:59, Sam Whited wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2020, at 11:58, Marvin W wrote: > > PS: As a sending client you can already opt-out using a hack: By > > prepending the opening (and, if needed, closing) styling > > directive with zero-width space (U+200B) > > I hadn't actually thought of this. I'll need to think about it more, > but we might recommend this in the spec since this is the exact use > case zero width spaces are for (things that are word boundaries but > where spaces don't necessarily go, between characters that shouldn't > be put together in connected scripts, etc. My only concern would be > that they also have the meaning "you can add a soft break here" which > is probably *not* what you want in this case. > > I'll think about it more, but this is definitely at least close to the > point of a zero-width space and might be worth documenting. > > —Sam > > > -- > Sam Whited -- Sam Whited _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: standards-unsubscr...@xmpp.org _______________________________________________
