RE: Re[2]: Fixed Width Spaces (was: Printing and Displaying Depen dentVowels)

From: Mike Ayers (mike.ayers@tumbleweed.com)
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 17:01:34 EST

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    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
    > Behalf Of Alexander Savenkov
    > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 11:25 AM

    > That is arguable. An aural user agent could pronounce "1, 2, 3" a bit
    > different from "1, 2, 3" if there is a (say) thin space between the
    > digits in the latter case. It could pronounce it quicker, for example.

            It *could* do that, but, frankly, that would be a bad idea. Speech
    synthesis devices have enough trouble with plain text as it is - adding
    special interpretation for neo-markup characters would just make things
    worse. This belongs in the realm of (surprise!) markup.

            This seems to be international let's-merge-markup-into-plaintext
    month.

    /|/|ike



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