Re: What's in a space?

[rrr@xxxxxxxx (Rene von Rentzell)]

Robert Holmgreen:
>One-byte Ascii 32 is the normal space. It displays as a normal space.
>The 3-byte version of Ascii 32 (actually 255-50-48, or 255+"20") is the hard
>(unbreakable) space. Within XyWrite it displays as an Ascii 31
(downward-pointing
>solid triangle, in most screen fonts). Similarly, the unbreakable hyphen
is the
>3-byte form of hyphen (255-50-68, or 255+"2D", cf. the hexadecimal notation
for a
>1-byte hyphen, 2Dh).

Thanks. But, according to the XY-3 manual, page 4-14, the ASCII 32 is the
hard space. Why the deviation?


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