<jameskass at att dot net> wrote: > In addition to the problem of the OS substituting improper glyphs > from inappropriate fonts unexpectedly, there's often a problem with > line breaking. > > Since the PUA has no properties, some applications seem to ignore the > space character and break lines arbitrarily, splitting words in the > middle.
That's exactly what happens in my sample pages. I didn't think it was because the PUA had "no" properties so much as "default" properties, which (as Thomas Chan indicated) might be Han-based or Han-influenced. You can always switch to a font that will display glyphs for your PUA characters, but it's harder to adapt a rendering engine to observe PUA character properties. In any case, I am absolutely certain :-) :-) that the arbitrary mid-word line breaking is what has discouraged would-be readers from pointing out the typo (since fixed) in my transcription of a Dorothy Parker poem: http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/sopp-ew.html -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
