Follow-up Comment #40, bug #63354 (group groff): [comment #39 comment #39:] > [comment #5 comment #5:] > > Unicode's U+200B ZERO WIDTH SPACE has the semantics of groff's \: escape. > > Arguably, so does U+0082 BREAK PERMITTED HERE.
I suggest that it doesn't. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes#C1_controls Wikipedia says]: > Follows a graphic character where a line break is permitted. > *Roughly equivalent to a soft hyphen or zero-width space except > it does not define what is printed at the line break*. (emphasis added) That caveat seems to hoist on us on the very petard that separates the marauding `\:` Turk from the `\&` ground soaked by the bloodthirsty Romanians. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63354> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
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