Re: po: Use non-breaking spaces where required by the French typography rules.

[Frédéric Delanoy]

2011/7/23 Francois Gouget :
> Except where they may be sent to a command line terminal.
>
> I did some tests and non-breaking spaces don't seem to cause any issue
> in the GUI.

Did you use thin/normal non-breaking spaces?
Keep in mind that the space "width" and breakability rules change
slightly between e.g. France and French-speaking Canada, and that some
(most?) translation tools don't allow you to easily view/enter those
characters.

TBH I'm not quite sure it's worth the trouble ATM

Frédéric

po: Use non-breaking spaces where required by the French typography rules.

[Francois Gouget]

On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Frédéric Delanoy wrote:
[...]
> Did you use thin/normal non-breaking spaces?

I used regular non-breaking spaces.
> Keep in mind that the space "width" and breakability rules change
> slightly between e.g. France and French-speaking Canada, and that some
> (most?) translation tools don't allow you to easily view/enter those
> characters.

Just for information, what are the differences?

po: Use non-breaking spaces where required by the French typography rules.

[Frédéric Delanoy]

2011/7/25 Francois Gouget :
> On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Frédéric Delanoy wrote:
> [...]
> > Did you use thin/normal non-breaking spaces?
>
> I used regular non-breaking spaces.
> > Keep in mind that the space "width" and breakability rules change
> > slightly between e.g. France and French-speaking Canada, and that some
> > (most?) translation tools don't allow you to easily view/enter those
> > characters.
>
> Just for information, what are the differences?

I didn't find the exact page, but you can check the following:
- http://traduc.org/gnomefr/Typographie
- http://66.46.185.79/bdl/gabarit_bdl.asp?Al=1&id=2039&D=Espacement%20...

traduc mailing list archive may have some additional info on this.

Frédéric