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[Jean-Pierre Chrétien]

Le 08/05/2023 à 14:43, Pavel Sanda a écrit :
> On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 02:17:41PM +0200, Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote:
>> In French, the guillemets are inserted as characters ?? and ??
>> (automatically translated from  typed character "), but they are associated
>> to a protected space, so in ?? exemple ??, there are 9 characters without
>> blanks and 11 with blanks.
> 
> But this protected space is added by user or it's LyX's doing?

LyX does the job, the spaces appear in the LyX window.

Same stuff for punctuation marks : ; ? and !, which are all preceded by a 
protected space in French. the space is added by Lyx, but it does not need to 
appear in the LyX window.

But it is weirder than it looks: if the user types in a space before : ; ? and 
!, LyX does not add anything, but makes it a protected space if it is not one.

So, it is clear that the French guillemets counts for 2 characters (one if 
blanks excluded), but for the : ; ? and ! characters, it would be necessary to 
count 2 characters if the punctuation sign is not preceded by a blank.
I suppose that you count characters in the output from the analysis of the 
characters in the LyX window, is this correct ?

-- 
Jean-Pierre