- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:43:18 +0200 (DST)
- To: bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM (Jon Bosak), msftrncs@htcnet.com, www-style@w3.org
- Cc: www-html@w3.org, boo@best.com
On Sep 21, 11:51pm, Jon Bosak wrote: > Code point 10/00 (decimal 160) is called NO-BREAK SPACE in ISO 8859-1 > (Latin Alphabet No. 1). It is defined as follows: > > 6.3.2 NO-BREAK SPACE (NBSP) > > A graphic character the visual representation of which consists of > the absence of a graphic symbol, for use when a line break is to > be prevented in the text as presented. Acording to that definition, Hello There could be validly presented as HelloThere. That has an absence of a graphical symbol and does not have a linebreak. The text as quoted does not say that the writing position is advanced or describe any other space-like properties. It reads, infact, rather like a zero-width joining character, or something that might supress automatic hyphenation. Autocalibration might be presented as text text Auto- calibration but Auto calibration would be presented as text text Autocalibration However, this is not what I and I guess most people assume is meant by a non-breaking space. What I understand is: 1) it looks like a space (same width of space, etc 2) consecutive nbsp are not folded into one 3) you don't get a line break there Given the official ISO definition quoted above, I can cite no supporting evidence for two of those three assumptions.... -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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