Popular wordprocessors treating U+00A0 as fixed-width
Shriramana Sharma via Unicode
unicode at unicode.org
Sun Dec 31 20:14:36 CST 2017
While http://unicode.org/reports/tr14/ clearly states that:
<quote>
When expanding or compressing interword space according to common
typographical practice, only the spaces marked by U+0020 SPACE and
U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE are subject to compression, and only spaces
marked by U+0020 SPACE, U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE, and occasionally spaces
marked by U+2009 THIN SPACE are subject to expansion. All other space
characters normally have fixed width.
</quote>
… really sad to see the misunderstanding around U+00A0:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_windows8-mso_2016/nonbreakable-space-justification-in-word-2016/4fa1ad30-004c-454f-9775-a3beaa91c88b?auth=1
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41652
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