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Re: No-break space & soft hyphen?

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From: Arne Thormodsen
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:17
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I don't think that the No-break space is in the 8859 sets as an aid
to word processing.  It is there for field-oriented data I/O to indicate
that a particular "space" is NOT a valid place to break up input data.

--arne

Arne Thormodsen
CSO Internationalization
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From: arnet@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Arne Thormodsen)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:17:15 GMT
Subject: Re: No-break space & soft hyphen?
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