Thank you This is very interesting. Being French-Canadian I never put a space before punctuations and was not aware of the rule.
So in general it is mainly for presentation and formatting use as I understand. I guess we can then just treat them as spaces. Thanks Sent from my iPhone 6 > On Oct 12, 2015, at 09:31, Dominique Pellé <dominique.pe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Andre Couture wrote: > >> Hi >> I did not follow the entire conversation here but I was curious as of why >> would someone put a non breaking space between two words? >> We face that in other areas of our code as well. >> >> If the idea of the nbsp is to keep the two apparent words together, would >> it be good to handle the nbsp as an hyphen? Which mean that the two >> words could be treated as two words or a single one?? > > No. The nbsp is to avoid a newline where it would not be suitable. > A good example is when you write "80 kg". It would be ugly if > 80 is at the end of the line and kg at the beginning of the next line. > So using a nbsp between numbers and units is useful. But for > LanguageTool, this is irrelevant (i.e. it should be like a space). > > There are other good examples of nbsp in English here: > > http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/28467/when-is-it-appropriate-to-use-non-breaking-spaces > > There are plenty of space characters in Unicode. See: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character > > The tokenization should ideally treat them equal I think but > I have not checked. > > In French at least, handling "U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE" > correctly (i.e. as a space for LT) would be useful. This is the recommended > space to use in front of punctuation ? ! ; : I know, English and other > language > don't put a space before those punctuation characters, but French does, > it would be ugly if the punctuation character was on the next line. > https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espace_fine_ins%C3%A9cable > > Regards > Dominique > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Languagetool-devel mailing list > Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel
