2014-03-27 15:10, Kalvesmaki, Joel wrote:
William, try the U+2000..U+200A glyphs under General Punctuation--I think that's what you're looking for to manage precise widths of blank space.
That range contains some “fixed-width spaces”, yes. Being “fixed-width” is rather relative here, though, and many fonts do not contain these characters. Rendering software could of course display them by just leaving suitable spacing, but that’s not common.
The “fixed-width spaces” are mostly just legacy characters, holdover from old typography. They may have their uses, though, in contexts where they work and other spacing methods don’t (for example, I recently noticed that they seem to be the only way to create a little spacing between an inline equation and normal character in MS Word).
But for the purposes of indenting text lines, I don’t think they are useful. In almost all cases, there are better tools for indentation.
And many (most?) software routines do not treat these as part of the class of spacing characters (\s in regular expressions).
Well, most regexp implementations are very Ascii-oriented: notations like \s, \w, \d, etc. match Ascii characters only.
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