- From: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 19:52:49 -0400
- To: Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com>
- Cc: Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On 6 October 2010 19:23, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com> wrote: > > On Oct 5, 2010, at 9:16 PM, Ambrose LI wrote: >> I suppose a trivial typographically valid use case would be an opening >> quotation mark in French. When French guillemets are used, the opening >> guillemet should always be followed by a space before the real first >> letter appears. > > A non-breaking space, according to wikipedia. Theoretically, you are correct. But in practice, most people just won't bother, and they will just use a normal space on web pages. Even on web pages of professional graphic design associations you see normal spaces after the opening guillemet and before the closing guillemet. So, from a practical viewpoint, the use case stands. -- cheers, -ambrose
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