> Yes, the Unicode name for that character is NO-BREAK SPACE. > > I just changed everything to "nobreak space" because (ISTR) > someone said the Unicode name had no hyphen. Which way is the > Unicode name written?
The Unicode name is NO-BREAK SPACE (and the old Unicode name is NON-BREAKING SPACE). Creating a Lisp symbol requires converting the space into the hyphen. Leaving the second already existing hyphen makes the symbol name `no-break-space' ambiguous since the user might interpret it as `no (break space)' with the unknown term `break space'. Removing the existing hyphen and adding other one instead of the space makes the resulting name `nobreak-space' unambiguous. But perhaps the cindex name in the Emacs manual should be the same as the Unicode name: @vindex nobreak-char-display @cindex no-break space, display @cindex soft hyphen, display -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/ _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
