Re: Mongolian NNBSP [I18N-ACTION-458]

On 31.07.2015 20:07, Richard Wordingham wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 16:44:52 +0100
> Andrew West <andrewcwest@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What is the context for "Numeric NNBSP Aletter" ? ExtendNumLet would
>> inhibit a word break after a numeric, but I think that MidLetter would
>> not.
Then MidLetter is correct. A word break after a numeric is incorrect.
> Correct.  Nor would MidNumLet - "X.25" has word breaks either side of
> the full stop (.) - |X|.|25| is what I get as an indications of
> boundaries when I use the ICU software library.  ICU is a flagship
> implementation of Unicode properties. ('|' represents a word
> boundary.)
>
> If a short word containing NNBSP does not fit on a line, but
> the part before NNBSP would, what should the next line begin with?  The
> whole word, or just the suffix?
Whole word. Not the suffix.
> If words with NNBSP may be freely split between lines at the NNBSP, and
> the nothing remains of the gap, then NNBSP should have line-breaking
> property BA (= "break after"), not GL.  This would make NNBSP totally
> unsuitable for French!
For line breaking property, I will ask my colleague.

Badral

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