On 05/08/2003 15:09, Mark Davis wrote:
<< 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 the General Category assigns
only
a single value to each character. >>
Whenever you have a question about the status of a character, you need
to look it up in the UCD. You can either do that by going through the
unicode website, or if you want a more readable interface, use the ICU
character browser, which formats that data.
Look at space, U+0020.
http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/ub/utf-8/?go=0020&ch.x=4&ch.y=7
The general category is Space_Separator, *not* a format character.
Now wording there could definitely be clearer, but the operant phrase
is:
...but their
membership in the Z (separator) class *takes precedence* over their
membership in the Cf class...
So it would be cleared to say something like:
In many ways the characters, Zs, Zl, and Zp, are similar to format
characters, but because their general usage is significantly different
they are broken out into a separate General Category, as Separator
characters.
Mark
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Thank you, Mark. This helps to clarify things, but still doesn't
explicitly answer my question of how to encode "a sentence like "In this
language the diacritic ^ may appear above the letters ...", but instead
of ^ I want to use a combining character" and want to display exactly
one space before the combining character - do I encode two spaces or one?
--
Peter Kirk
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