Quotes in stats

[Jean-Pierre Chrétien]

Le 08/05/2023 à 21:42, Pavel Sanda a écrit :
> 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?

For HTML pages, I used to insert &ńbsp; after « and   before » ( and   
before : : ! ?).

-- 
Jean-Pierre