From: Tex Texin (tex@i18nguy.com)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 20:24:17 EDT
Right. I was only thinking that if U+202F wasn't available it might be a
better choice than NBSP.
tex
Jim Allan wrote:
>
> Tex Texin posted on my indication that only U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE and
> U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE are available in Unicode for a
> digit-grouping space in numbers:
>
> > Jim, Why do you leave out U+2007 figure space?
>
> U+2007 FIGURE SPACE is also a non-breaking space.
>
> But Philip Verdy claimed (and I agree) that the digit grouping space in
> numbers should (in a proportional font) be "less wide" than a digit.
>
> U+2007 is by definition the same width as a digit (in a font where there
> is a set of Latin digits with a common width). It represents a space
> used in hard-type technology for leading spaces for numbers in columns
> (sometimes along with U+2008 PUNCTUATION SPACE) to enable right
> justification of numbers in such columns.
>
> Jim Allan
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