From: Karl Ove Hufthammer (lister@huftis.org)
Date: Wed Aug 21 2002 - 03:12:03 EDT
Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:20020821035044.57067.qmail@web9608.mail.yahoo.com:
> Yes French orthography does demand a non-breaking
> half-width space inside guillemets (angle quote
> marks). Unicode has such a character U+202F but it
> doesn't seem well supported. We have a couple of
> options here. We can just use the normal non-breaking
> space, U+00A0 for now and upgrade when the character
> has wide support. Or we can insert the correct
> character and remap to U+00A0.
What Mozilla will do (there is a bug in BugZilla on this), is
support all space characters, even when there aren't an appropiate
glyph in current font. E.g., when a thin space character is used,
and no glyph exist, just draw a space 1/8 of an em (IIRC).
-- Karl Ove Hufthammer
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Wed Aug 21 2002 - 03:29:57 EDT