[XeTeX] Unicode space characters

[Benct Philip Jonsson]

Jonathan Kew skrev:
> On 18 Mar 2009, at 18:31, Tomáš Janoušek wrote:
>> Okay, I'll try to make a package sooner or later. Thanks for your  
>> opinions. :)
> 
> Thanks. If you make a package for this, it might be good to support a  
> more complete set of the various fixed-width "space" characters from  
> the U+200x row; most of these are defined in relation to an em, so it  
> would be easy to turn them into \kern amounts (or \hskip if some of  
> them should be flexible).
> 
> One question to think about is what they should do if they occur in  
> vertical mode; should they act like "printable" characters,  
> automatically starting a paragraph, or should they act like spaces and  
> simply disappear?

Another character to consider is U+034F COMBINING GRAPHEME 
JOINER, which should be used to inhibit diacritic stacking.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_grapheme_joiner>

/BP