[Bug 15175] New: rendering.html suggested 'quotes' values lack « spacing »

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15175

           Summary: rendering.html suggested 'quotes' values lack «
                    spacing »
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: peter.moulder@monash.edu
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


rendering.html (section 14.3.6 Quotes) currently has

  :lang(en) { quotes: '\201c' '\201d' '\2018' '\2019'; } /* “ ” ‘ ’ */
  :lang(fr) { quotes: '\00ab' '\00bb' '\201c' '\201d'; } /* « » “ ” */

While it's true that French uses guillemets « » for quoting, it uses them in
spaced form:

  Quelqu’un fait : « Chut ! »

I'd have thought that this should mean that the value of 'quotes' for fr should
include that spacing (say as nbsp, for the sake of UAs that don't implement
tr14 line breaking), as in '\ab\a0' '\a0\bb' '\201c' '\201d' .

The [CLDR] reference given isn't very specific, so I haven't found the exact
source of the current rules.  The prose of Unicode 6.0.0 (chapter 6, p190) only
says “of these languages, at least French inserts space...” (and goes on to
suggest no-break space).

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Received on Wednesday, 14 December 2011 01:37:24 UTC