Daniel,
>Ken Krugler wrote:
>>
>> In Palm OS 3.1, the numeric space character (formerly at location 0x80) was
>> moved to location 0x19. The glyph at 0x80 was left unchanged, for better
>> compatibility with existing software.
>
> Is there any reason Palm chose 0x19 instead of 0xA0, which is the
>existing Windows "numeric space chr"?
The goal was to have a numeric space which could be used with any character
encoding (e.g. Shift-JIS, future encodings, and whatnot). Thus it had to be
in the control range. Which should be OK, since the numeric space character
(at least with Palm OS) is there as a presentation form only.
-- Ken
Ken Krugler
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