I think what you want is maybe characters with 0 width. But just because it has 0 width doesn't mean it can't show up. This is really weird, but what 0 width really means is that the cursor doesn't move when you type the character.
Zero width:
The character has no width of its own, so what it can do instead is borrow some width from another character. It does not rob the other character's width; instead, it shares it. It might appear above or below the other character to share its width.
I have seen this in action.
If only it was people that use this stuff that invented computers. Then they would have better support for it!
(See my old remark about the hypothetical language with script joining AND a 1000+ character set AND furigana. Any other cool "features" this language would have?)
Hmm,, your language does not script-join its digits. That would be a good one. Bankers would love it.
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$B!!$"$^$s$1(B NFEGT FM MGYWPRMKA FM F SFNNGYGB IWOG
$B$M$1$"$:!!(B IWKK QGT FT IPQGT ZFXG GHRFK YWJZNM.
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$B7oL>(B: FW: Arabic font Crisis!!!!!
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Basel Abu Khiran [mailto:bkh@itgsolutions.com]
>Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 7:34 AM
>To: 'info@unicode.org'
>Subject: font Crisis!!!!!
>
>
>Dear Sir.....
>I would like to inquire aboout a certaain issue....
>I have a font that I use to desplay Qura'n
>You know that arabic letters have special characters above or below
>them....... now........after defining unicode in a c program..... the
>lenth of a word in that font is much more than it's actual length....
>
>How does a font handle these special characters????
>
>thank you very much....
>
>R&D Departement
>ITG Solutions
>Basel Abu-Khiran
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