Re: Mongolian NNBSP [I18N-ACTION-458]

On Sat, 1 Aug 2015 11:31:54 +0100
Andrew West <andrewcwest@gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought that rendering engines were already
> correctly rendering suffixes after NNBSP, and that the issue was with
> some editors and word processors (notably Word) incorrectly segmenting
> Mongolian text for word counting, word selection and word navigation
> purposes.  If text-processing applications rely on
> WordBreakProperty.txt for word breaking then they should work after
> the change is introduced; if not, then it is up to users to report the
> behaviour as a bug to the individual software vendors.

Word doesn't use WordBreakProperty.txt.  While Microsoft may take note
of a recommended change to the file, the trouble with NNBSP should be
reported independently.  The best argument would be what happens for
spell-checking.  Does Word have a Mongolian spell-checker?

Richard.

Received on Saturday, 1 August 2015 11:00:53 UTC