On 12/17/2019 2:41 AM, Shriramana
Sharma via Unicode wrote:
You don't? In principle it may be true that NBSP is not fixed width, but show me software that doesn't treat it that way. In HTML, NBSP isn't subject to space collapse, therefore it's the go-to space character when you need some extra spacing that doesn't disappear. I bet, in many other environments it was typically the only "other" space character, so it ended up overloaded. My hunch is that it is too late at this point to try to promulgate a "clean" implementation of NBSP, because it would effectively change untold documents retroactively. So it would be a massively breaking change. If you have a situation where you need really poor layout (wide inter-word spaces) to justify, the fact that a honorific in front of a name works more like it's part of the same word (because the NBSP doesn't stretch) would be the least of my worries. (Although, on lines where interword spaces are a reduced a bit, I can see that becoming counter-intuitive). If you only fix this in software for high-end typography, you'd still have the issue that things will behave differently if you export your (plain) text. And you would have the issue of what to do when you want fixed spaces to be non-breaking as well (is that ever needed?). A./ |
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