Quotes in stats

[Pavel Sanda]

On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 09:42:33PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 06:06:48PM +0200, Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote:
> > Le 08/05/2023 ?? 15:45, Pavel Sanda a écrit :
> > >On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 03:21:05PM +0200, Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote:
> > >>So, it is clear that the French guillemets counts for 2 characters (one if
> > >>blanks excluded),
> > >
> > >Well, I would presume that even if we output space, it's sort of typographic
> > >adjustment and not blank as a character but as you wish, I can easily return
> > >2 chars instead of 1 for guillemets.
> > 
> > In fact, it is a thin space...
> 
> And we are back to square one :)
> 
> Let me put it in different way: if you are to submit some short 
> french text in web text form (say an article abstract) - so there
> are no fancy typographic options. 
> Or you are putting french comment to your source code containing
> someone's quotation.
> 
> Would you rather add guillemets with normal space or you'd rather
> put no space at all?

I committed version counting any quote as a single character. 
Can be easily changed to two for guillemets if we conclude it's
the right thing to do.

Pavel