NBSP supposed to stretch, right?

[Shriramana Sharma via Unicode]

On 12/19/19, James Kass via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
>
> There's a bug report for the LibreOffice application here...
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41652
> ...which shows an interesting history of the situation.

LOL two years ago almost to the date Shriramana Sharma seems to have
already *quoted* the Unicode Standard on this
(https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41652#c30):

<quote>
The Unicode standard document http://unicode.org/reports/tr14/ clearly
states that:

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>

But we have some people there on that bug saying that:

<quote>
While Unicode is an important standard, it's only of secondary
importance to an office suite. Its primary goal is *not* creating a
reference comformant implementation of the standard; rather, it should
use the standard to the extent it needs to serve its users most.
</quote>

which is a �� approach in my eyes but well, that's how the real world
is on many things. Anyhow the above comment is continued as:

<quote>
And if legacy requires that some statements of standard be violated to
keep existing documents intact, that should be that way, until a
better design is invented and implemented, which would make possible
to please both sides.
</quote>

This means option #1 I mentioned earlier and which seems to already
have been discussed in the bug discussion: provide a per-document
option or at least a Word-compatibility option as to how to treat
NBSP.

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