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- From: daniel@borland.com (Dan Veditz)
- Subject: Re: No-break space & soft hyphen?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.192534.16319@borland.com>
- Originator: daniel@genghis.borland.com
- Sender: news@borland.com (News Admin)
- Organization: Borland International--Scotts Valley, California
- References: <1993Jan19.164410.24236@infodev.cam.ac.uk> <1993Jan20.075935.10371@dde.dk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:25:34 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- ct@dde.dk (Claus Tondering) writes:
- >ag129@cus.cam.ac.uk (Alasdair Grant) writes:
- >
- >>ISO 8859-1 includes "no-break space" and "soft hyphen" which are intended
- >>to print as space and hyphen without being considered suitable targets
- >>for automatic line breaks and hyphenation. Do these characters have a
- >>future? Are they widely used?
- >
- >I doubt it very much. It seems to me that the people behind 8859 have
- >confused two issues here: Character sets and word processing.
-
- I doubt they are used as such, but the NBSP exists in all the European
- codepages for DOS PC's I've seen, as character 255 (decimal). The
- soft-hyphen exists in DOS codepage 850 as character 240.
-
- -Daniel Veditz
-