Doug Ewell wrote: > > Arthit Suriyawongkul <Arthit dot Suriyawongkul at Sun dot COM> wrote: > > >> These 9 code positions (0xA0, 0xDB..0xDE, 0xFC..0xFF) appear to be > >> undefined in TIS 620.2533. Reference [3] below does show a "word > >> separator character" at 0xDC, which I interpret as U+200B ZERO WIDTH > >> SPACE, but the other positions are still undefined. So this may not > > > > does it mean 0xA0 / U+00A0 ? > > As you mentioned in your other message, ISO/IEC 8859-11 does assign > U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE to code position 0xA0, but TIS 620 does not. > > If you are asking whether the "word separator character" I mentioned > should be U+00A0, I don't think that would be a good idea for Thai since > U+00A0 is supposed to be rendered as a visible space (like U+0020) but > without breaking lines between the surrounding words. My understanding > is that visible spaces are not used in Thai. So U+00A0 would do exactly > the wrong thing for Thai, whereas U+200B would do the right thing > (indicating a word boundary without displaying a space). This is also > officially recommended by the Unicode Standard. > > -Doug Ewell > Fullerton, California
I think your idea is better, Doug :) "word separator character" should be invisible, you're right. thanks, art
