- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 10:59:56 +0900
- To: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>, Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org>
- CC: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com>, public-ldp-comments@w3.org, cowan@ccil.org, Steven Atkin <atkin@us.ibm.com>, www-international@w3.org
On 2015/03/09 02:49, John Cowan wrote: > Eric Prud'hommeaux scripsit: > If we look in detail at the 25 characters that Unicode says are of type > WS, here's what we find: >> The downside is that someone typing in some script with its own >> whitespace (does that exist?) must use ASCII space, but they have to >> anyways because all of the language keywords are in ASCII. > > Of the three remaining space characters, two are like that: > > Ideographic space (U+3000): yet another fixed-width space, but actually > heavily used in Japanese text. "heavily used in Japanese text" is relative. You won't find lots of ideographic spaces in Japanese because Japanese as such is written without spaces. But on the other hand, the chances are high that if there's a space somewhere in Japanese text (mostly for formatting purposes) it's an ideographic space. Two anecdotes from personal experience: 1) When I get a new PC, one thing I do is adjust the settings of the Japanese input method. I make sure that it converts space input to the ASCII space rather than the ideographic space. 2) When teaching programming, one nasty error students run into is an ideographic space instead of an ASCII space. I have to teach them how to detect/avoid this error. Regards, Martin.
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