On Friday, August 08, 2003 9:16 PM, Peter Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 07/08/2003 13:57, John Cowan wrote: > > > ... But an immediate problem comes to mind: what if there is a > > line break between the two base characters? > > What if there is a line break between the two characters joined by a > double width combining character? > > Are arbitrary line breaks in the middle of words actually permitted > anyway? Presumably any line breaking property of the first base > character of the pair is cancelled anyway. That leaves a problem only > if the second base character has a line break before possibility. > Well, that could just be treated as one of the sequences we were > discussing yesterday, not illegal Unicode but its rendering is > undefined. Such break in a middle of a multiple width diacritic exist in some notations, and are not considered "horrible typography". Just look at musical notations where a upper horizontal parenthesis is used to group some elements (sorry I don't know how you name it exactly in English or Italian), despite there's a measure break in the middle, which may span to the other musical line: you end up with two parts for the same diacritic broken across the lines. -- Philippe. Spams non tolérés: tout message non sollicité sera rapporté à vos fournisseurs de services Internet.
