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Article #518Re: No-break space & soft hyphen?
From: Dan Veditz
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:25
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:25
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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
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Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!purdue!decwrl!borland.com!daniel 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