On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:45:54 +0000 James Kass via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> Perhaps I'm not understanding, but if the desired behavior is to > prohibit both line and word breaks in the example string, then... > > In Notepad, replacing U+0020 with U+00A0 removes the line-break. I believe the problem is that "δ’ αρχαια" should have non-blank *words*. With U+2019, one gets 3. Line-break suppressing spaces don't help with word-breaking, because they are not treated as letters. A clunky solution would be to have a sequence <delta, control-joining-words, U+2019>. However, there is no such thing as a 'control-joining-words' if one complies with the TUS injunction in Section 23.3, "The word joiner should be ignored in contexts other than line breaking". A robust, trainable spell-checker will treat this institutionally racist injunction with the contempt it deserves. It's interesting that the spellings "'bus" and "'phone" have died. They would once have hit the word-boundary problems when "bus" and "phone" were rejected. Richard.
