TR14 does have provision for not breaking certain punctuation across spaces,
especially for French and similar languages; you should take a look at it to
see whether or not it completely covers the cases you are concerned about.
If not, you should make a proposal to change it so that the UTC can consider
it.
Mark
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Andries" <pandries@iti.qc.ca>
To: "Eric Muller" <emuller@adobe.com>; <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 06:51
Subject: elision and different non-break spaces in French (support in MS
Office ?) (was Re: New version of TR29:)
>
> De: "Eric Muller" <emuller@adobe.com>
>
> > That being said, here are a few problematic cases for your proposal:
> >
> > "prud'homme" (a member of an industrial tribunal) is a single word, as
> > are his relatives "prud'homal", and "prud'homie".
>
> I believe TR29 gives a much more common example « aujourd'hui » (today)
and
> admits that it would present a problem for word-breaking.
>
> >Speaking of French line break problems, there is also the case of the
> >";", which takes a space before and after: "foo ; bar". Of course, one
> >never breaks on the space just after "foo". Same for ":".
>
> Well, the space is a thin non-break one (espace fine insécable), so
> obviously no breaks. Same before minor punctuation marks like "!" and
"?".
> Before "major" punctuation marks like ":" , " »" and after "»" the
> non-breaking space is larger (espace mots insécable).
>
> This "espace fine insécable" is most probably U+202F. Unfortunately, I
don't
> not know how to test this. I seem to have only one font with this
character
> (Andalé Mono) but it seems wider than the normal no-break space despite
its
> name. Word also seems to make no distinction between both no-break spaces
> (espace mots insécable and espace fine insécable) : it adds automatically
> only the larger non-break space and omits the thiner one, I see no (easy)
> way for it to automatically implement the proper spacing.
>
> Any help welcome.
>
> P. Andries
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> ISO 10646 et Unicode en français
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