Peter Kirk scripsit:Tell Microsoft! (See Noah Levitt's posting.)
The gap may not be large, but Philippe, John H and I have identified a real gap. Why this antagonism against filling it?
What you have identified is a set of implementation defects, not problems with the Unicode Standard. The standard way to do what you want is to precede the combining mark with SP or NBSP. If that "doesn't work", then the implementation that makes it not work needs to be fixed.
If this is indeed "The standard way to do what you want", then the standard needs to make it clear that the sequence of <space, combining mark> or <NBSP, combining mark> has the properties which I want, i.e. it has the width of the combining mark alone, and not the full width of a space, and does not expand for justification, is not a line breaking opportunity, does not in fact have any of the properties of a space. I expect to see such a clarification in the next edition of the Unicode Standard.
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