On Tuesday, August 05, 2003 5:40 PM, Mark Davis wrote: > Where did you get the notion that space is not a base character? And > base characters include those that are not control or format > characters. Space is neither one.
Well, I think Jim Allan pointed to the source of this notion in his email of a few hours ago. 1) From the UCD: 0020;SPACE;Zs;... 2) From Unicode 3, Section 4.5, third paragraph (in its entirety): "Zs, Zl, and Zp are considered format characters, but their membership in the Z (separator) class takes precedence over their membership in the Cf class, because General Category assigns only a single value to each character." I believe that reasonable people might reasonably conclude from factoids 1 and 2 that SPACE is indeed a format character. Reasonable, but evidently wrong. Explanation, please? Ted Ted Hopp, Ph.D. ZigZag, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-301-990-7453 newSLATE is your personal learning workspace ...on the web at http://www.newSLATE.com/
