> From: Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:48:42 -0400 > Cc: [email protected], Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Actually, speaking here as a francophone who may have spent too much time in > anglophone countries, I really don't understand why this double-space thingy > is perceived as related to language.
It's not related to the language, it's related to the culture. The double-space thingy is taught in the US schools (for reasons that are a mystery to me; perhaps someone could explain them), so people coming from that culture have double-space wired into their brains. People who come from other cultures, even from Britain, use a single space after a period that ends a sentence. > Typography doesn't have much to say about it, since this is plain "ASCII" > text we're talking about. I use double spaces in French as much as > in English. Maybe it was more customary to use double space in fixed-width > fonts (e.g. courier on old manual typewriters) in English than in French but > if that's the reason for the perceived difference, how relevant is that now? It's mostly irrelevant, I think, since modern word processors do TRT even with a single space. _______________________________________________ Emacs-pretest-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
