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  1. From: arnet@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Arne Thormodsen)
  2. Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:17:15 GMT
  3. Subject: Re: No-break space & soft hyphen?
  4. Message-ID: <140950003@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
  5. Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
  6. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!hplextra!hpcss01!hpcupt1!arnet
  7. Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
  8. References: <1993Jan19.164410.24236@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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  11. I don't think that the No-break space is in the 8859 sets as an aid
  12. to word processing.  It is there for field-oriented data I/O to indicate
  13. that a particular "space" is NOT a valid place to break up input data.
  14.  
  15. --arne
  16.  
  17. Arne Thormodsen
  18. CSO Internationalization
  19. Hewlett-Packard
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