- From: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:54:25 +0100
- To: Eric Aubourg <eric.aubourg@soleb.com>
- CC: W3C Digital Publishing IG <public-digipub-ig@w3.org>
On 26/10/2013 22:28 , Eric Aubourg wrote:
> Indeed, there should be a space in French before any "double"
> punctuation. But in good quality typesetting, this space is a thin
> space ("quart de cadratin").
Except before ":" where it is a full-width space (but non-breaking
obviously).
My understanding is that this particularly ugly affectation is specific
to fr-FR and does not have currency in fr-CA (I don't know about other
variants).
> It would of course be a great thing to have CSS (best) or the reading
> system (universality issue) take this into account.
Ideally this should be a matter of reader preference.
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Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/ - @robinberjon
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