Re: Non-breaking hyphen in UILabel?
Re: Non-breaking hyphen in UILabel?
- Subject: Re: Non-breaking hyphen in UILabel?
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:27:59 -0800
On Jan 24, 2014, at 12:06 PM, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
>> I see there is such a thing as a nonbreak hyphen (U+2011) but the traditional Mac keyboard never emitted it. Opt-minus is an en dash (U+2013). For visual effect, it may serve your intention, but it does not parse the same.
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> Must be what apps like Word and others did prior to OS X.
Naw. There was almost no usage of Unicode in the classic OS*. Nor was there a decent built-in text layout framework**; any app needing more than totally bare-bones text editing had to do everything itself. Word has always had its own cross-platform editing engine.
(OK, this is off-topic, but today's the 30th anniversary of the Mac, so it's nice to reflect on how far we've come even since 2000!)
—Jens
* In the late '90s there was ATSUI, but I don't think it got much use other than by Web browsers and the JVM.
** QuickDraw GX had some single-line-layout APIs but they were much lower-level than NSLayoutManager, plus no one used GX.
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