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Re:The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS by pimlottc on Monday November 27, 2023 @11:26PM (#38442326)
> I always liked the french <<this is a quote>> model. Somehow it felt more like an embedded thing.

Those « » characters are called "guillemets" [0]. Fun fact, they're named after an early French typecutter, Guillaume Le Bé!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillemet

Re:The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS by ahmedfromtunis on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @12:27AM (#38442657)
No, they are the worst.

Guillemets require using space around them («wrong», « correct ») which makes typesetting so hard as you have to hunt for each guillemet that fell to the next line to manually fix it.

And even that's not possible on the web, so you have to get used to dangling punctuation.

Re:The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS by chrishill89 on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @04:05AM (#38443841)
They don’t require a space around them. That’s a French thing. They don’t require that in Swiss German.

Also not in Norwegian and probably others.

Re:The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS by eynsham on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @01:45AM (#38443102)
In LaTeX it’s quite easy to change the kerning so that one needn’t leave a space in the plaintext. It’s akin to e.g. east Asian full-width Unicode punctuation marks, or even slightly dated English typography (when there was a little more space before most semi-colons).
Re:The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS by RHSeeger on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @12:59AM (#38442839)
Could you use non-breaking space instead?
Re:The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS by uxp8u61q on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @01:24AM (#38442993)
Use non breaking spaces between the content and the guillemet...
Re:The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS by chrismorgan on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @02:12AM (#38443254)
You should use U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE for French punctuation spacing.
Re:The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS by realusername on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @02:00AM (#38443190)
That's also required with every punctuation symbol with two parts in French so : ; ! and ? also require an extra space.
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