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[css-text] Spacing in Canadian French #8657

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xfq opened this issue Mar 29, 2023 · 5 comments
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[css-text] Spacing in Canadian French #8657

xfq opened this issue Mar 29, 2023 · 5 comments
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xfq commented Mar 29, 2023

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-4/#valdef-text-autospace-punctuation

In this level, if the element’s content language is French, narrow no-break space (U+202F) and no-break space (U+00A0) is inserted where required by French typographic guidelines.

Canadian French is not mentioned in the link and the rules are different for Canadian French. There’s no extra space before question marks, exclamation marks, and semicolons, for example. We should probably need to add spaces depending on the region.

@xfq xfq added css-text-4 i18n-tracker Group bringing to attention of Internationalization, or tracked by i18n but not needing response. i18n-eurlreq European language enablement i18n-amlreq Americas Language Enablement labels Mar 29, 2023
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@xfq These rules should probably be maintained in some registry that isn't the CSS spec. Does the i18nWG want to main them at W3C or should this be part of Unicode CLDR somehow?

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r12a commented Mar 30, 2023

Here is a more up to date version of the French Canadian rules: https://www.noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca/en/writing-tips-plus/spacing#spacing-french

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r12a commented Mar 30, 2023

see also #8661

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ras52 commented Nov 24, 2023

The link in the current draft to the French typographic guidelines no longer works.

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xfq commented Nov 27, 2023

The link was introduced in b57a412

Perhaps we should link to https://www.w3.org/TR/dpub-latinreq/#language-specific-spacing-rules ?

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