Courier New was lacking NNBSP on Windows 7. It is including it on Windows 10. The tests I referred to were made 2 years ago. I confess that I was so disappointed to see Courier New unsupporting NNBSP a decade after encoding, while many relevant people in the industry were surely aware of its role and importance for French (at least those keeping a branch office in France), that I gave it up. Turns out that foundries are delaying support until the usage is backed by TUS, which happened in 2014, timely for Windows 10. (I’m lacking hints about Windows 8 and 8.1.)
Superscripts are a handy parallel showcasing a similar process. As long as preformatted superscripts are outlawed by TUS for use in the digital representation of abbreviation indicators, vendors keep disturbing their glyphs with what one could start calling an intentional metrics disorder (IMD). One can also rank the vendors on the basis of the intensity of IMD in preformatted superscripts, but this is not the appropriate thread, and anyhow this List is not the place. A comment on CLDR ticket #11653 is better. […]
Due to the way <NNBSP> made its delayed way into Unicode, font support was reported as late as almost exactly two years ago to be extremely scarce, this analysis of the first 47 fonts on Windows 10 shows: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17036-mongolian-suffix.pdf Surprisingly for me, Courier New has NNBSP. We must have been using old copies. I’m really glad that this famous and widely used typeface has been unpdated. Please disregard my previous posting about Courier New unsupporting NNBSP. […]
Marcel
