From: Peter Kirk (peter.r.kirk@ntlworld.com)
Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 16:11:06 EDT
On 08/08/2003 09:54, Jim Allan wrote:
> ...
>
> It certainly makes sense that in the case of space characters that
> have a defined width that this width is innate to the definition of
> the character and in such a case should take precidence over the width
> of the normally non-spacing combining character.
>
> I would welcome clear instructions by Unicode on this point where
> either result would be useful in order than applications may be
> expected to produce results that are consistent with each other. :-)
Agreed!
>
> I would think it would be consistant with Unicode for an application
> to shrink the width of normal space followed by a diacritic such as a
> single overdot as exact formatting behavior is not defined in such cases.
Well, is a space followed by a diacritic actually a space, or is it the
same code point reused or overloaded "By convention" (to quote the
standard) for a logically distinct purpose? Some of the discussions here
have implied the latter. Either way, the best clarification would be to
add a character whose explicit function is to form non-spacing variants
of diacritics.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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