I didn't say anything about U+00A0 one way or the other.... Keeping in mind that the purpose of this software is to get work done, and not to fulfil anyone's philosophical notions of software, my general feeling is that:
* Xe(La)TeX should support plain text characters--for *my* present purpose, meaning characters which are printable, pure and simple, regardless of where in the Unicode space they are; as far as I know, this is the case now (and my case in point was more or less just aimed at this issue); * it should support whatever other characters are necessary to complex rendering, if it doesn't already; * optionally it can/could support whatever else, as the in-the-flesh maintainers of the package have time and leisure to implement. I said 'feel', because it seems to me all very well for the rest of us to debate philosophy back and forth, but unless we're doing the actual work.... As someone has already pointed out, lots of what is in Unicode is there because it is UNI-code. It may very well have outlived its usefulness, at least in the context of Xe(La)TeX doing the work one would like it to do. Just because something is in Unicode doesn't mean one has to want to use it. In fact, the more unnecessary things one implements, the better the chance of instability. There are no doubt multiple ways to achieve this pragmatically stated goal. I don't feel any vested interest in dictating to anyone the preference for how to go about it. K >>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:15 PM, in message <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2011, Karljurgen Feuerherm wrote: >> I use U+12000 and above regularly, as a case in point... > > Do you think that basic formatting control functions should be bound to > code points in that range, as the preferred way of accessing those > functions? Let's not lose track of what this discussion is about. > > XeTeX can *with appropriate font support* accept nearly any Unicode point > in its input. But very few Unicode points are treated specially by XeTeX > as such, and I don't think U+00A0 should be one of them. > -- > Matthew Skala > [email protected] People before principles. > http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
