Peter Kirk scripsit: > Using NBSP rather than SPACE has several advantages, and has long been > specified in Unicode, although not widely implemented. It is less likely > to occur accidentally. But it has disadvantages, especially that it will > always be a spacing character, whereas for display of isolated Indic > vowels no extra spacing is required.
You don't actually say so, but you give me the impression that you think NBSP is a fixed-width space. It isn't; it can assume any width greater than zero, just as SPACE can; in particular, when used before a NSM, I would expect it to have the same width as the NSM. > I would like to repeat my earlier proposal for a new character ISOLATED > COMBINING MARK BASE. This character would have no glyph, and the general > properties of a letter. Its spacing would be just as much as required > for proper display of the combining mark - which would be zero for > combining marks which have their own width. Except for not being letters, SP and NBSP have, or ought to have, exactly this behavior. -- "Well, I'm back." --Sam John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
