On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 03:07 pm, John Cowan wrote:
Ben Dougall scripsit:
why is it not categorised as white space then? or is it? doesn't look like it is to me, but i'm not sure how to actually find out for sure.
Well, um, it's not white: there is a dot in it.
i was just querying what philippe had said, and wondering why unicode's categorising didn't match up with what he was saying:
There seems to be a difference: leaders are expected to be written in sequences (sometimes long) to create a dotted line. The complete sequence of leaders then seems to be a form of tabulation (sort of whitespacing), and default ignorable, unlike the full stop which is a non ignorable punctuation (or a non ignorable decimal separator)....
So one-dot leaders can safely be replaced by spaces without affecting the semantic, unlike the full stop or the ellipsis.
that led me to ask, why it isn't categorised as white space.
