I would like to point out that with all due respect, how particular fonts or rendering engines behave is only marginally relevant to the Unicode list. I think that we should deal only with the Unicode specification.
A particular implementation or many implementations may not behave as expected, and then may be either conformant or non-conformant, or may behave as expected and still be either conformant or non-conformant. Messages such as the attached help the discussion of the specification only as illustrations and as a basis for discussing conformity. Jony > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Kirk > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 12:11 PM > To: Curtis Clark > Cc: Unicode List > Subject: Re: Display of Isolated Nonspacing Marks (was Re: > Questions on ZWNBS...) > > > On 05/08/2003 16:59, Curtis Clark wrote: > > > on 2003-08-05 15:31 Peter Kirk wrote: > > > >> Thank you, Mark. This helps to clarify things, but still doesn't > >> explicitly answer my question of how to encode "a sentence > like "In > >> this language the diacritic ^ may appear above the letters > ...", but > >> instead of ^ I want to use a combining character" and want to > >> display exactly one space before the combining character - do I > >> encode two spaces or one? > > > > > > In this language the diacritic ̊ may appear above the letters... > > > > Two spaces, at least in Thunderbird Mail. > > > > > Thank you. Well, this sort of works. I looked in various > fonts. In some > of them the diacritic is centred in the space between the words > "diacritic" and "may", but in others it is offset to the left or the > right. The problem is that the space is wider than the > diacritic, which > confuses things, and all the more so no doubt if it expands for > justification. NBSP would probably be a better choice in that > it is less > likely to expand. But what I am looking for is a diacritic > holder which > is defined to be only as wide as the diacritic. On the principle that > base characters expand to fit the width of the diacritic, ZWSP or, > better, a real (rather than misnamed) zero width no break space would > seem to have the right properties for that. > > -- > Peter Kirk > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/ > > > > >
