Well, *my* desire it to simple know whether to tell people doing digital editions of Ancient Greek texts whether to use U+2019 or U+02BC for the apostrophe marking elision (or at least accurately describe the trade-offs of each).
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 10:50 AM James Kass via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > Perhaps I'm not understanding, but if the desired behavior is to > prohibit both line and word breaks in the example string, then... > > In Notepad, replacing U+0020 with U+00A0 removes the line-break. > U+0020 ( δ’ αρχαια ) > U+00A0 ( δ’ αρχαια ) > U+202F ( δ’ αρχαια ) > It also changes the advancement of the text cursor (Ctrl + arrows), > suggesting that word/string selection would be as desired. (U+202F also > does this and may offer a more pleasing appearance to classisists by > default.) > > Wouldn't it be best to handle substitution of U+00A0 for U+0020 at the > input method / keyboard driver level where appropriate, so that > preferred apostrophe U+2019 can be used? > > -- *James Tauber* Eldarion <https://eldarion.com/> | jktauber.com (Greek Linguistics) <https://jktauber.com/> | Modelling Music <https://modelling-music.com/> | Digital Tolkien <https://digitaltolkien.com/>