On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:18 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>wrote: > >> Issue 4: The 'letter-spacing' property as currently implemented puts >> space between Arabic letters. Does this make sense? Should there be >> some other behavior instead (e.g. suppressing letter-spacing)? >> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-**text/#letter-spacing<http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-text/#letter-spacing> >> >> data:text/html;charset=utf-8;**base64,PCFET0NUWVBFIGh0bWw%** >> 2BDQo8cCBzdHlsZT0ibGV0dGVyLXNw**YWNpbmc6IDFlbSI%** >> 2B2qnZhduMINmG2YjYtNiq2YbZhiDY**udix2KjbjA%3D%3D > > > I can't think of any publishing use case with Arabic script that would use > this behavior. Connected glyphs should always remain connected. Even when > letters are pronounced individually, such as with Muqatta'at (مقطعات) , > they are still written in connected form. > > The only case where I could see permitting letter spacing would be if > there is an intervening ZERO-WIDTH NON-JOINER (U+200C). > That is, something like (in logical order): BEH ZWJ {ZWNJ|ZWSP|SPACE} ZWJ NOONReceived on Sunday, 16 June 2013 01:10:19 UTC
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