At 04:09 AM 11/28/01 -0800, James Kass wrote:
>Is the repha supposed to be a spacing mark? If not, doesn't a non-spacing
>mark need to be applied to a space or spacing mark to avoid display
>problems?
The Unicode standard states that if you *intend* to show it in isolation,
you should make it follow a space.
As usual in cases where the standard talks about things like that, the
intent is to settle what series of characters should be in the data to
realize a given intent (or content). The question of how to display it
precisely is, like all questions of rendering, outside the scope of the
Standard.
These two aspects are related but subtly different. Content of a text is
related to archetypical appearance, not to specific realization. As
rendering a non-spacing mark on a dotted circle when it appears in
isolation is a quite reasonable realization of the archetype (isolated
mark) it seems conformant.
However, I would expect the software to not display the preceding space
character in that instance.
A./
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