Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation over the American

Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by rom1v on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @05:29AM (#28537032)

> The french have a different speciality: punctuation marks that consist of two parts(i.e. ? ! ; :) are preceded by a space character.

Precision: a non-breaking space (unicode U+00A0) :)

LibreOffice or other word processing software automatically replace normal spaces by non-breaking spaces in that case.

But in text editors (like vim), we must do it manually (Ctrl+Shift+ua0 on Linux), typically when writing a French text in markdown, it's a bit irritating indeed.

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Re:Prefer the British Style of Quotation Mark Punctuation ov... by Symbiote on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:05AM (#28537591)

This is usually configurable, e.g. Compose-Space-Space inserts a no-break space if the Compose key is set up, or AltGr+Space, Ctrl-Shift+Space etc.

(KDE has a dialog for customizing this under Settings→Input Devices→Keyboard→Advanced, where there are an impressive 16 possible options. It is just options to setxkbmap underneath.)

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