On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 02:06, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 03:15:05PM +0900, Guillaume
Blanchard wrote:
> Can we have a per-language post-parser to be able to make language specific
> modification on text before rendering?
>
> For example, in French typography, we need to put non-breaking space before
> characters ':', ';', '»', '!', '?', after
'«' and between numbers hundreds.
>
> Actually, we do that with HTML code but it make text sometime very
> ugly.
>
> For exemple :
>
> Il dit : « Bonjour ! »
>
> Is actually write :
>
> Il dit : « Bonjour ! »
>
> I don't know if non-breaking space is used in other language typography?
The idea sounds great, but it's very difficult to
do right.
Not everything on X Wikipedia is in language X - you have things in other languages,
computer code, etc.
Does this really matter? It doesn't seem like other languages, or
computer code, would be hurt by changing a few spaces to non-breaking
spaces.
Carl Witty