On 2015-08-19 16:33:09 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Thomas Schmitt (scdbac...@gmx.net): > > But the typographical purpose of NO-BREAK SPACE is to look > > like space without inviting an automatic line break. > > So making it look not like space would be absurd. > > But shell input is not a typographical context. Most source code > isn't, except in literals. Documents generally are because they are > displayed/printed.
The point is that the terminal cannot do the difference between a NBSP coming from shell input and a NBSP coming from a displayed document. So, it should render a NBSP exactly like a normal space. And it is up to the application (the shell, an editor in some mode, etc.) to render NBSP in a special way if needed. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
