Talk:Non Breaking Spaces Before Punctuation In French (espaces insécables)

Brain-Storming

ES: the goal is to make a balance between "everything we can make perfect" and help as many people as possible who are missing this feature.

1. Provocative: Why do we implement this as a core feature while there's already a working extension for this (http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/insecable)?
   Note: This extension only works for Writer.
   -> No need to download something extra for a function which should work from the start.
   -> As mentioned: the extension only works in Writer...
2. Scope: "French". In which country? France, Luxembourg, Monaco, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, others? Which references should we have?
   - France, Luxembourg, Monaco, Switzerland, Belgium: http://unicode.org/udhr/n/notes_fra.html
   - Canada: http://www.olf.gouv.qc.ca/RESSOURCES/ti/espacements_20030605.pdf.
3. Use always a simple non breaking space (HTML: &nbsp) or follow the subtle differentiations of the French typography rules using a so called "thin space" (espace fine) (HTML: &thinsp - which is a BREAKING space!) depending of the case?
   Note: MS-Word seems to (always) use the simple non breaking space...
   - Yes: the simple non breaking space will be used.
   1. And then re-work the implementation of "Tools - AutoCorrect Options - Custom Quotes" when French is the current character language?
4. Shouldn't we avoid to through a very language specific feature into the general AutoCorrect Options dialog? Create a new localized tab page?
   Yes. Both questions above find their answer in the AutoCorrect Options - Localized Options specification.