https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41652
Simo Kaupinmäki <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #7 from Simo Kaupinmäki <[email protected]> --- It is easy to agree with Stfhell's notion that the intervening space in expressions such as "Dr Freud" and "5 %" should be non-breaking, but I can't quite see the reasoning behind it having to be of fixed width too. By similar logic, shouldn't the spaces in "Sigmund Freud" and "five per cent" have fixed width as well? I find it rather inconsistent that a non-breaking space, which in non-justified text looks exactly like an average space, may stand out as narrower than average if the text is justified. Can you point out an authoritative source that actually recommends this? (Note that even in justified text, the difference will only be discernible on some of the lines, and in carefully typeset publications it should ideally not be discernible at all because the variation between lines is minimized by using hyphenation.) The French spacing applied in connection with certain punctuation is a little different matter, as U+00A0 is mostly considered too wide for this purpose in professional-level typography as far as I know. A more appropriate character should be the narrow no-break space U+202F (though technical support for it may still be lacking in some environments; for a detailed, though not necessarily quite up-to-date discussion, see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/595365/how-to-render-narrow-non-breaking-spaces-in-html-for-windows). As regards abbreviations such as "i.e." the standard way to write these seems to be without any space, at least as far as English is concerned: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/i.e. http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/i.e. So, in principle what my point boils down to is this: Is there actually a legitimate need for a fixed-width no-break space that is _only_randomly_ distinguishable from a normal space in justified text? Sure, many people have learned to expect that U+00A0 behaves like that, but from a professional typographer's perspective this expectation may be misguided, and it is clearly contradicted by the Unicode standard. (It may also be worth noting that Firefox nowadays seems compliant with the Unicode in its rendering of U+00A0.) That said, the approach suggested by Stfhell might indeed offer a practical compromise, catering both for the Unicode-compliant view and the MS Word-compliant view. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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