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It certainly makes sense that in the case of space characters that have a defined width that this width is innate to the definition of the character and in such a case should take precidence over the width of the normally non-spacing combining character.
I would welcome clear instructions by Unicode on this point where either result would be useful in order than applications may be expected to produce results that are consistent with each other. :-)
Agreed!
I would think it would be consistant with Unicode for an application to shrink the width of normal space followed by a diacritic such as a single overdot as exact formatting behavior is not defined in such cases.
Well, is a space followed by a diacritic actually a space, or is it the same code point reused or overloaded "By convention" (to quote the standard) for a logically distinct purpose? Some of the discussions here have implied the latter. Either way, the best clarification would be to add a character whose explicit function is to form non-spacing variants of diacritics.
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