On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:34:56 +0200 Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 01:41:12 +0200 > > Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Is there standard way in Unicode to specify tht one wants to > > > display a combining > > > mark in isolation ? .... > I would have prefered tht you answer WORD JOINER+diacritic. I'm > looking for the best format control to use. But all Unicode-defined processes splitting text treat the combination of base and combining mark as unbreakable! WJ+diacritic would only make sense if one were fighting a hyphenator that chose to separate bases and spacing combining marks, or a processor that split Sanskrit text into individual words. Even then, WJ is strictly speaking defined as indicating no word boundary, rather than no line break. Richard.

