[email protected] wrote:
If your assumption is that the standard isn't being implemented,
I made no such assumption. I referred to what has been implemented.
If your goal is to produce non-confomant texts,
I have no such goal, though I surely will use non-conformant things if they help to get things done and conformant things won’t.
In addition, producing conformant text allows you to provide bug reports to non-conformant developers, thus aiding in the implementation of the standard.
If I produce texts that will be used by people unknown to me, I will have little opportunity to make bug reports about their failures with software they use to see or process my texts. And normally it is more important to have the content and presentation of the text transmitted than to urge other people to make bug reports.
Besides, which clause in the Unicode Standard says that the use of ZWNBSP within text is non-conforming? A “should” statement is not a conformance criterion.
And which clause says that an implementation must support WORD JOINER? The standard does not generally require support to all Unicode characters in all implementations. And if support is not required, there is no case for a bug report in the sense that this expression used to have in the good old times (report on a violation of a requirement), just in the modern sense that covers all kinds of wishes and proposals (including completely unrealistic ideas).
Yucca
