- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:21:16 -0700
- To: "Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu" <kennyluck@csail.mit.edu>
- CC: WWW Style <www-style@w3.org>
On 03/29/2012 07:24 PM, Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu wrote: > > I don't read Perl, but in any case, I heard that 'text-space-collapse: > discard;' is mostly about fixing *existing content* and this is one such > example. IIRC it was mostly intended for describing MathML's behavior. And handling other use cases like turning a list into a bunch of inline blocks without having to strip the indentation white space out of the source. >> Arabic. You want to make sure that the words don't run together; that >> they are shaped independently even if the spaces are removed. > > U+200B prevents words from running together too, although the horizontal > advancement of these two are different in various situations. I think it > would be helpful if some sample examples are analyzed. Otherwise, how do > you know in these cases words should be shaped independently if the > spaces are removed? The horizontal advancement of both should be zero. If it's not, file a bug against that implementation. :) The difference is that U+200B gives a line break opportunity whereas U+200C does not. ~fantasai
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